computing:virtmanagerhell
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| + | To create a backup volume inside a guest you create the volume, attach it, and then shell into the guest and format, mount, and create an fstab entry. First, on the hostOS: | ||
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| + | cd / | ||
| + | qemu-img create -f qcow2 vm1-backup.qcow2 32G | ||
| + | virsh attach-disk guestOS.qcow2 \ | ||
| + | --source / | ||
| + | --target vdb \ | ||
| + | --persistent | ||
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| + | Then, on the guestOS: | ||
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| + | mkdir /mnt/backup | ||
| + | mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb | ||
| + | mount -t auto /dev/vdb /mnt/backup | ||
| + | nano /etc/fstab | ||
| + | /dev/vdb /mnt/backup ext4 defaults, 0 0 | ||
| The rest from here on out is my attempt at resizing an .img virtual disk using tools exclusively from virsh / virt-manager. These are highly risky moves and totally not needed for day to day operations. It was more of a mission I was on and based on a tutorial I used nearly 15 years ago when expanding a Windows VM I used for teaching software that was only on that VM. At any rate, I have only succeeded twice doing this, and often get confused looking at the l00ps. Proceed with caution! | The rest from here on out is my attempt at resizing an .img virtual disk using tools exclusively from virsh / virt-manager. These are highly risky moves and totally not needed for day to day operations. It was more of a mission I was on and based on a tutorial I used nearly 15 years ago when expanding a Windows VM I used for teaching software that was only on that VM. At any rate, I have only succeeded twice doing this, and often get confused looking at the l00ps. Proceed with caution! | ||
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| kpartx -d debian10.img | kpartx -d debian10.img | ||
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