luca2 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Hi, I created a 30GB virtual qcow2 disk. The phisical disk is formatted as XFS. Later I resized my virtual disk to 60GB. This is what I have now: root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 7.5G 103M 7.4G 2% /boot /dev/loop0 1.8M 92K 1.6M 6% /etc/libvirt /dev/sdf1 112G 46G 67G 41% /mnt/vm root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 vfat 7800304 104468 7695836 2% /boot /dev/loop0 ext4 1843 92 1541 6% /etc/libvirt /dev/sdf1 xfs 117162564 47828660 69333904 41% /mnt/vm root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# qemu-img info w8_gaming_00.qcow2 image: w8_gaming_00.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 60G (64424509440 bytes) disk size: 26G cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false Inside my vm I see this in disk management (see attached pic). I tried to extend the initial 30GB volume and windows tells me it is not possible. What other way can I try to extend the disk size to the total virtual size? Link to comment
dmacias Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Hi, I created a 30GB virtual qcow2 disk. The phisical disk is formatted as XFS. Later I resized my virtual disk to 60GB. This is what I have now: root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 7.5G 103M 7.4G 2% /boot /dev/loop0 1.8M 92K 1.6M 6% /etc/libvirt /dev/sdf1 112G 46G 67G 41% /mnt/vm root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 vfat 7800304 104468 7695836 2% /boot /dev/loop0 ext4 1843 92 1541 6% /etc/libvirt /dev/sdf1 xfs 117162564 47828660 69333904 41% /mnt/vm root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# qemu-img info w8_gaming_00.qcow2 image: w8_gaming_00.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 60G (64424509440 bytes) disk size: 26G cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false Inside my vm I see this in disk management (see attached pic). I tried to extend the initial 30GB volume and windows tells me it is not possible. What other way can I try to extend the disk size to the total virtual size? I think you would have to boot from a windows setup DVD or even a linux live cd and use gparted. Just something else that isn't using the drive as the main operating system drive. Link to comment
Pducharme Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Hi, I created a 30GB virtual qcow2 disk. The phisical disk is formatted as XFS. Later I resized my virtual disk to 60GB. This is what I have now: root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 7.5G 103M 7.4G 2% /boot /dev/loop0 1.8M 92K 1.6M 6% /etc/libvirt /dev/sdf1 112G 46G 67G 41% /mnt/vm root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 vfat 7800304 104468 7695836 2% /boot /dev/loop0 ext4 1843 92 1541 6% /etc/libvirt /dev/sdf1 xfs 117162564 47828660 69333904 41% /mnt/vm root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# qemu-img info w8_gaming_00.qcow2 image: w8_gaming_00.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 60G (64424509440 bytes) disk size: 26G cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false Inside my vm I see this in disk management (see attached pic). I tried to extend the initial 30GB volume and windows tells me it is not possible. What other way can I try to extend the disk size to the total virtual size? I think you would have to boot from a windows setup DVD or even a linux live cd and use gparted. Just something else that isn't using the drive as the main operating system drive. Yes, you'll need to boot to Gparted or Windows PE (Setup). Link to comment
htpcnewbie Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Looks like you are running Windows 8? I have a Win 8.1 Pro and I was able to do this last week. I increased the qcow2 image by 20GB and increased the size of C: by that amount. In the windows management window, right click on the c: and chose extend. I got an initial warning that the active drive cannot be increased but went ahead with the process and in the end I saw my C: drive with increased +20GB. If you want some screenshots of any specific information let me know. Hi, I created a 30GB virtual qcow2 disk. The phisical disk is formatted as XFS. Later I resized my virtual disk to 60GB. This is what I have now: root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 7.5G 103M 7.4G 2% /boot /dev/loop0 1.8M 92K 1.6M 6% /etc/libvirt /dev/sdf1 112G 46G 67G 41% /mnt/vm root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 vfat 7800304 104468 7695836 2% /boot /dev/loop0 ext4 1843 92 1541 6% /etc/libvirt /dev/sdf1 xfs 117162564 47828660 69333904 41% /mnt/vm root@Tower:/mnt/vm/w8# qemu-img info w8_gaming_00.qcow2 image: w8_gaming_00.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 60G (64424509440 bytes) disk size: 26G cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false Inside my vm I see this in disk management (see attached pic). I tried to extend the initial 30GB volume and windows tells me it is not possible. What other way can I try to extend the disk size to the total virtual size? Link to comment
luca2 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 I am running win 8.1. I got the same warning but did not go ahead. I will have a look at it today. Link to comment
luca2 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 I got an initial warning that the active drive cannot be increased but went ahead with the process and in the end I saw my C: drive with increased +20GB. Excellent! You were right. As simple as this Link to comment
htpcnewbie Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Glad it worked for you as well I got an initial warning that the active drive cannot be increased but went ahead with the process and in the end I saw my C: drive with increased +20GB. Excellent! You were right. As simple as this Link to comment
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