Hi, Sorry to bring this up again. Now i am trying the clonezilla method to downsize one of my VM. I have created a smaller storage volume and added to the VM. I boot up wih clonezilla but have issue cloning the drive over. Should I use Disk-Image or Device-Device? Please advise. Thanks! Yongsan On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:09 AM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote: > Well, I can tell you how I do it. Might help… > > > > 1) create a new storage volume of the size you want with Virtual Manager. > (Host details>Storage tab) > > > > 2) shut down the VM and add the new volume to the VM ( it now has two > virtual drives - the original and the new) > > > > 3) boot with clonezilla, clone one drive to the other. Then boot gparted > and resize as needed > > > > 4) delete both drives from the vm, and then add back the new volume. Boot. > > > > 5) keep the old, smaller volume around for a while as backup. > > > > > > When you add a volume, Virtual Manager assigns a device name to it: hda to > the first drive, hdb to the second, ect. > > > > So, you have to delete them both to get Virtual Manager to assign hda to > the new one, otherwise the OS will not be able to boot. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110313/2596c636/attachment-0005.html>