Re: RAW / Qcow disk image online resizing

[Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 02:50:31PM +0000, Steven C Timm wrote:
> qcow2--actually whenever I've done it I've actually shut down
> before even growing the qcow2 image and resizing the file system.
> Note I haven't been running Xen for quite some time and there
> might be new features now of which I am unaware, but as far as I
> know it doesn't depend on the hypervisor you are using, KVM has
> same issue.

I can certainly resize a domU's root filesystem without rebooting
it, no problem, but I only use LVM-backed block devices as VM disks
so have no idea how it is done with any other kind of backend, or if
it can be.

Cheers,
Andy