Note: in case of any issue you can remove the existing image and edit the windows XML file with the command virsh edit win10 and replace the image with the backup image and start the windows. Once you have the backup ready you can go ahead with the next steps. Copy the win10 image to the new directory.I am creating a new folder called win-backup. To take a backup, you can copy the same disk image to a new folder. Backup the storage.īefore we make changes it is better to have a backup, just in case if anything goes wrong. Now goto the image location and type ls -l :$ cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/ You may type the command virsh domblklist win10, you should be able to see the virtual harddisk storage here. In the same window, you could also see the windows 10 storage size is at 40GB Using CLI In Virt manager click on properties of the windows 10 VM and click on VirtIO Disk 1, Here you can see the storage location of windows 10 Shut down the windows machine in KVM and locate the Windows 10 disk image. You can find the KVM qemu disk image either using GUI or the CLI. We are going to increase the VM’s virtual hard disk storage using KVM resize disk, before you perform that, first you need to find the KVM disk image. Though we are doing it for windows 10 the steps are pretty much the same for other versions of windows as well, such as windows 7, 11, server, and so on. In this Windows KVM disk partitioning guide let’s go ahead and extend the storage for windows 10 VM guests in KVM. How do I increase the size of a qemu image? How do I increase the size of a qemu image?.
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