A couple of comments... if this VM is managed by libvirt (recent enough version is several years old IIRC), you don't need to shut the VM down or ever touch the image file directly.
To resize a running VM image, you can do: virsh blockresize vmname /var/lib/libvirt/images/vmname.qcow2 20G If the VM is using virtio or virtio-scsi drivers, it should see the change immediately. If you are running LVM, on recent enough Fedora (I don't know, at least the last several years), you can then resize without a reboot too. Find the partition (usually 2 on BIOS or 3 for UEFI boot systems with a fairly default setup) and device (usually /dev/vda for virtio or /dev/sda for virtio-scsi), and do (adjusting dev/part): parted /dev/vda resizepart 2 100% quit pvresize /dev/vda2 Then you need to know your filesystem LV name (like "fedora/root") and filesystem type (usually ext4, could be xfs if a Server install) and do: lvresize -l +100%FREE fedora/root resize2fs /dev/fedora/root -or- xfs_growfs / And you have more space! I do this all the time with libvirt-managed Linux VMs. I haven't yet gone through th necessary steps for the more recent btrfs setup. There's also the possibility of LVM set up with thin pools... can't remember if that works the same or needs additional steps. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
