Expand a VM Disk

[potts.mike]

I need to expand the disk o n my windows 7 VM. I saw a few threads that said to go to the VM tabs, click the name of the VM and then I can enter a new size for the disk. I must be doing something wrong because I've done this but it doesn't seem to be saved in Unraid. The page refreshes and the disk is still at the original size.

 

Should this be working  in the latest release of unraid? what am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks,

[allanp81]

I think that setting is if you are creating new, not resizing.

 

A quick google search should give the answer though as I've done it a few times before:

 

http://serverfault.com/questions/324281/how-do-you-increase-a-kvm-guests-disk-space

 

1. stop the VM
2. run qemu-img resize vmdisk.img +10G to increase image size by 10Gb
3. start the VM, resize the partitions and LVM structure within it normally

[JonathanM]

54 minutes ago, potts.mike said:

what am I doing wrong?

Is the VM in question stopped?

[potts.mike]

I knew it was something obvious. The VM was running.

[stormense]

On 2017-04-11 at 4:54 PM, jonathanm said:

Is the VM in question stopped?

I click the name of the VM and then I can enter a new size for the disk. I must be doing something wrong:  The page refreshes and the disk is expand in size. Start up Windows VM but the diskmanager shows the original size. I can't expand the disk in diskmanager.

 

Edited March 18, 2018 by stormense

[JorgeB]

55 minutes ago, stormense said:

Start up Windows VM but the diskmanager shows the original size.

Reboot the VM, not shutdown, reboot

[stormense]

1 hour ago, johnnie.black said:

Reboot the VM, not shutdown, reboot

That was easy and work, thank you!

OK - First stop the VM, then expand the disk in Unraid, then start Windows, reboot and expand the partition in Windows.