How To extend/increase KVM Virtual Machine (VM) disk size

1. How do I expand my KVM disk?
2. How do I increase the size of a VM partition?
3. How do I increase the virtual hard drive size on a Linux virtual machine?
4. How do I increase the size of my qcow2 disk?
5. How do I shrink a KVM disk image?
6. How do I shrink an image in qcow2?
7. How do I shrink the size of a virtual machine?
8. How do I extend a disk?
9. How can I increase disk space?
10. How do I resize a VDI file?
11. How do I add more storage to VirtualBox?
12. How do I increase the size of my VM in VirtualBox?

How do I expand my KVM disk?

How To extend/increase KVM Virtual Machine (VM) disk size

1. Step 1: Shut down the Virtual Machine on KVM. Before you can extend your guest machine Virtual disk, you need to first shut it down. ...
2. Step 2: Extend your KVM guest OS disk. Locate your guest OS disk path. ...
3. Step 3: Extend guest VM disk. ...
4. Step 4: Grow VM partition.

How do I increase the size of a VM partition?

To enlarge a virtual machine's hard disk in VMware, power off the virtual machine, right-click it, and select Virtual Machine Settings. Select the virtual hard disk device in the list, click the Utilities button, and click Expand to expand the hard disk. Enter a larger maximum disk size and click the Expand button.

How do I increase the virtual hard drive size on a Linux virtual machine?

Extending partitions on Linux VMware virtual machines

1. Shutdown the VM.
2. Right click the VM and select Edit Settings.
3. Select the hard disk you would like to extend.
4. On the right side, make the provisioned size as large as you need it.
5. Click OK.
6. Power on the VM.
7. Connect to the command line of the Linux VM via the console or putty session.
8. Log in as root.

How do I increase the size of my qcow2 disk?

Expanding images

1. Shut down the virtual machine.
2. Resize the image with qemu-img resize image.qcow2 +SIZE. where SIZE is the size (e.g. 10G for 10 gibibytes).
3. Boot into an external live OS and resize the partition. The easiest way to do this is to use a GParted live image and virt-manager to connect to the VM.

How do I shrink a KVM disk image?

There's 3 things you need to do:

1. Make the disk image bigger. In your host: ...
2. Make the partition inside the disk image bigger. ...
3. Finally, if you resized your existing partition, make the filesystem inside the new bigger partition bigger (this is actually in the guide linked above anyway).

How do I shrink an image in qcow2?

In order to shrink the *. qcow2 files you've two options, enable TRIM support or zero out all free space of the partitions contained within the guest and then reconvert the image with qemu-img.

How do I shrink the size of a virtual machine?

To shrink a virtual disk:

1. Launch the control panel. ...
2. Click the Shrink tab.
3. Select the virtual disks you want to shrink, then click Prepare to Shrink. ...
4. Click Yes when VMware Tools finishes wiping the selected disk partitions. ...
5. Click OK to finish.

How do I extend a disk?

After Computer Management opens, go to Storage > Disk Management. Select and hold (or right-click) the volume that you want to extend, and then select Extend Volume. If Extend Volume is grayed out, check the following: Disk Management or Computer Management was opened with administrator permissions.

How can I increase disk space?

To increase your computer's disk space, you have several options: Obtain a larger (or additional) storage device: Hard drives have become more affordable over time, and installing an additional hard drive is reasonably easy for anyone familiar with computer hardware.

How do I resize a VDI file?

Step 2. Resize the VDI file

1. Shut down VirtualBox again.
2. Make a copy of the VDI file – just in case (“MyLinux.vdi” -> “MyLinuxCopy.vdi“)
3. Go into the Windows command prompt (Start->type “cmd” into the box)
4. cd to the location of the VDI file that you wish to resize, e.g., “d:\MyLinux.vdi“

How do I add more storage to VirtualBox?

Open Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager, select the Virtual Box for which you want to add the new disk and click on Settings.

1. Click on Storage, select hard drive and click on Add a hard disk.
2. Click on Create New Disk.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to create a new hard disk drive.

How do I increase the size of my VM in VirtualBox?

In the VM Window menu, go to View and make sure that the Auto-resize Guest Display option is enabled. Move the mouse pointer over the corner of the VM window, push the left mouse button and change the size of the VM window. The resolution of the user interface of guest Windows 10 is automatically changed.