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How to increase disk size for KVM virtual machine

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This article explains the detailed steps to increase disk size for KVM virtual machine through command line.

Step1: Login to the node server via ssh as root.

Step2: Get the name of the virtual machine.

#virsh list

 Id   Name    State
-----------------------
1    test   running

Step3: Stop the virtual machine.

#virsh shutdown test

It will take some time to complete the shutdown and we can check the state after few mins.

Step4: Identify the disk path for the virtual machine.

#virsh domblklist test

 Target   Source
-----------------------------------------------
vda      /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.qcow2
sda      -

Step5: Check for snapshots. Because qemu-img can’t resize an image which has snapshots.

#virsh snapshot-list test

 Name        Creation Time               State
--------------------------------------------------
snapshot1   2020-12-22 04:02:25 +0300   shutoff

Step6: Remove the snapshots. If there is no snapshots, we can ignore this step.

#virsh snapshot-delete --domain test --snapshotname snapshot1

Domain snapshot snapshot1 deleted

Step7: Extend the virtual machine disk.

#qemu-img resize /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.qcow2 +10G

Step8: Start the virtual machine.

#virsh start test

Domain test started

Step9: Login the virtual machine as root.

Step10: Check your new disk layout.

$ lsblk 

NAME          MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0            11:0    1 1024M  0 rom  
vda           252:0    0   40G  0 disk 
├─vda1        252:1    0    1G  0 part /boot
└─vda2        252:2    0   29G  0 part 
    ├─rhel-root 253:0    0 26.9G  0 lvm  /
    └─rhel-swap 253:1    0  2.1G  0 lvm  [SWAP]

Step11: Install cloud utils for getting growpart command. If the command is already installed, we can skip this step.

For Debian systems,

#apt install cloud-guest-utils

For Centos/Redhat systems,

#yum -y install cloud-utils-growpart

Step12: Extend the partition.

#growpart /dev/vda 2

CHANGED: partition=2 start=2099200 old: size=18872320 end=20971520 new: size=60815327,end=62914527

Please note that here all the command aruguments are given as per our current system. This need to be replaced with the corresponding values of real environment.

That's all…

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