Hi, I am trying to boot that particular VM which I want to resize using gparted ISO. May I know how can I boot a VM using a ISO file? Thanks! YongSan > > > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > But I would like the diskspace to be release to the hardware node so > >> > that i > >> > can create another VM as my hardware node is running out of diskspace. > I > >> > presume that using Gpart only reduce the diskspace on the VM but it > will > >> > not > >> > be release to the hardware node? > >> > Thanks! > >> > YongSan > >> > > >> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > Hi, > >> >> > As per subject, is there a way to reduce diskspace for a VM. I have > a > >> >> > VM > >> >> > with 200GB but would like to reduce the diskspace to 100GB. > >> >> > Please advise. > >> >> > Thanks! > >> >> > Yongsan > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > CentOS-virt mailing list > >> >> > CentOS-virt at centos.org > >> >> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> Perhaps shriking the partition using gparted inside the VM? > >> >> > >> >> Otherwise I can't figure out how to shrink a raw, qcow file under KVM > >> >> for example... > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Linux User #452368 > >> >> http://twitter.com/vpadro > >> >> > >> >> "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an > >> >> understanding of ourselves" > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> CentOS-virt mailing list > >> >> CentOS-virt at centos.org > >> >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > CentOS-virt mailing list > >> > CentOS-virt at centos.org > >> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > >> > > >> > > >> > >> What are you using to virtualize those VMs? > >> > >> -- > >> Linux User #452368 > >> http://twitter.com/vpadro > >> > >> "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an > >> understanding of ourselves" > >> _______________________________________________ > >> CentOS-virt mailing list > >> CentOS-virt at centos.org > >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-virt mailing list > > CentOS-virt at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > > > > I can only think of creating a smaller qcow file, clonning using dd > the contents of the oversized qcow/raw HD to that newly qcow > file...although is not the best solution. > > Maybe someone else could bring a better solution because there's no > much info on KVM just a little under Xen... :( > > > > -- > Linux User #452368 > http://twitter.com/vpadro > > "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an > understanding of ourselves" > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100920/bb989db4/attachment-0002.html>