Mathieu Baudier wrote: >>> 3. On both host and guest >>> >> This is what I always use and recommend. It doesn't have any side effects with modern software versions, except with layered >> > > Thanks! > > I have tried this, but I don't see how to grow the guest file system > without restarting the guest: > - if I grow the underlying logical volume on the host, the guest still > see the hard drive with the old size (checking with fdisk) > - if I would add additional logical volumes (host) / drives (guest) in > order to add them to the guest volume group, I will have to restart > the guest > > I am using virtio disks. > > Is there a command so that the guest notices that its harddrive has grown? > Is there a way to add new drives without restarting the guest? yes, you can add / remove disks to a VM without restarting the guest. look at the xm block-attach / block-detach commands _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
