Re: QEMU: increase image size with FreeBSD partitions ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: --On Tuesday, December 09, 2008 10:15:45 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: I have FreeBSD 7 running in a QEMU VM ... works like a charm, but I'm wondering if there is some way of *increasing* the size of the image beyond what I configured it for? I'm only finding stuff pertaining to NTFS/FAT32, but nothing about Unix in general, or FreeBSD specifically ... Is there any way of doing this, or do I have to build a new, larger img, and copy the data from diskA - diskB, and reboot on diskB? Doable, but time consuming ... I don't think there's anything automatic but you can grow the virtual disk, then modify the last partition size by hand, then use growfs. 'k, that is what I figured, but how do I grow the virtual disk? I've checked the qemu-img man page, and there doesn't appear to be a method of doing this ... I think I've incorrectly assumed you're using plain raw disk images - from the context I'd say that you're actually using one of qemu's own formats, right? The only thing I've found is this: http://kev.coolcavemen.com/2007/04/how-to-grow-any-qemu-system-image/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: QEMU: increase image size with FreeBSD partitions ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, December 09, 2008 10:15:45 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: I have FreeBSD 7 running in a QEMU VM ... works like a charm, but I'm wondering if there is some way of *increasing* the size of the image beyond what I configured it for? I'm only finding stuff pertaining to NTFS/FAT32, but nothing about Unix in general, or FreeBSD specifically ... Is there any way of doing this, or do I have to build a new, larger img, and copy the data from diskA - diskB, and reboot on diskB? Doable, but time consuming ... I don't think there's anything automatic but you can grow the virtual disk, then modify the last partition size by hand, then use growfs. 'k, that is what I figured, but how do I grow the virtual disk? I've checked the qemu-img man page, and there doesn't appear to be a method of doing this ... - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk/KvoACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvOEfQCghv9LtctUGSuagAlFbcEoNrWu udMAnixLBpCcfwOTUVkhjep/2dQSzNaD =YjqB -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
