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--- computing:virtmanagerhell [2022/08/08 20:13] – oemb1905
+++ computing:virtmanagerhell [2022/11/12 14:32] – oemb1905
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-This is all very old fyi and not current or helpful; might delete it soon. Resize an .img with virt-manager, for example, expanding a 64GB disk to a 124GB disk.  Start by installing the optional tools for this:
+To make a VM from the command line, do the following. Note that this recipe assumes you have already created your virtual switch, br0.
+  sudo virt-install --name=new \
+  --os-type=Linux \
+  --os-variant=debian10 \
+  --vcpu=1 \
+  --ram=2048 \
+  --disk path=/mnt/vms/students/new.img \
+  --graphics spice \
+  --location=/mnt/vms/isos/debian-11.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso \
+  --network bridge:br0
+To clone an existing image, do the following:
+  virt-clone \
+  --original=clean \
+  --name=sequoia \
+  --file=/mnt/vms/students/sequoia.img
+If you have a legacy image that needs to be larger, then install a few tools and the proceed to expand the virtual hard disk as follows:
+  apt install qemu-img kpartx
+  qemu-img resize debian10.img +50G
+After expanding the virtual hard disk, open gparted in X passthrough / command line and expand the existing partition into as much of the the new space as you prefer.
+-- Archive: Grow a VM through Command Line Only --
+These are two different attempts (both with 1 success each) of resizing .img files from the command line. Resize an .img with virt-manager, for example, expanding a 64GB disk to a 124GB disk.  Start by installing the optional tools for this:
   sudo apt install libguestfs-tools
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   kpartx -d debian10.img
-After messing around with this, and succeeding 1 time in resizing the drive this way, I decided that just issuing ''apt install qemu-img kpartx'' and then expanding within the VM's gparted GUI was far easier. It does require moving and/or deprecating swap (or other earlier partitions) or you cannot merge the file system.
- --- //[[jonathan@haacksnetworking.org|oemb1905]] 2022/08/08 00:37//
+ --- //[[jonathan@haacksnetworking.org|oemb1905]] 2022/11/12 07:27//

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