[Users] Best practice to resize a WM disk image

[Yeela Kaplan]

So, first of all, you should know that resizing a disk is not yet supported in oVirt.
If you decide that you must use it anyway, you should know in advance that it's not recommended,
and that your data is at risk when you perform these kind of actions.

There are several ways to perform this.
One of them is to create a second (larger) disk for the vm, 
run the vm from live cd and use dd to copy the first disk contents into the second one,
and finally remove the first disk and make sure that the new disk is configured as your system disk.
The second, riskier, option is to export the vm to an export domain,
resize the image volume size to the new larger size using qemu-img and also modify the vm's metadata in its ovf,
as you can see this option is more complicated and requires deeper understanding and altering of the metadata...
finally you'll need to import the vm back.



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocky" <rockybaloo at gmail.com>
> To: "Yeela Kaplan" <ykaplan at redhat.com>
> Cc: Users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:30:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Best practice to resize a WM disk image
> 
> Its just a theoretical question as I think the issue will come for us
> and other users.
> 
> I think there can be one or more snapshots in the WM over the time.
> But
> if that is an issue we can always collapse them I think.
> If its a base image it should be RAW, right?
> In this case its on file storage (NFS).
> 
> Regards //Ricky
> 
> On 2013-01-08 10:07, Yeela Kaplan wrote:
> > Hi Ricky,
> > In order to give you a detailed answer I need additional details
> > regarding the disk:
> > - Is the disk image composed as a chain of volumes or just a base
> > volume?
> > (if it's a chain it will be more complicated, you might want to
> > collapse the chain first to make it easier).
> > - Is the disk image raw? (you can use qemu-img info to check)
> > - Is the disk image on block or file storage?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yeela
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Ricky" <rockybaloo at gmail.com>
> >> To: Users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:40:27 AM
> >> Subject: [Users] Best practice to resize a WM disk image
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> If I have a VM that has run out of disk space, how can I increase
> >> the
> >> space in best way? One way is to add a second bigger disk to the
> >> WM
> >> and then use dd or similar to copy. But is it possible to stretch
> >> the
> >> original disk inside or outside oVirt and get oVirt to know the
> >> bigger
> >> size?
> >>
> >> Regards //Ricky
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