[Libguestfs] [PATCH FOR DISCUSSION ONLY] virt-resize tool for resizing virtual machines.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sun Mar 21 11:01:24 UTC 2010


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:55:47AM +0100, Dennis Krul wrote:
> On 19 mrt 2010, at 19:00, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
>> Unfinished patch to implement virt-resize.
>>
>> The concept is solid.  It just needs a little more thought as to
>> exactly how containers [of containers] expand and shrink in response
>> to user requests.
>>
>> Rich.
>
> Cool :)
>
> I did some testing, but I was unable to resize my test image. Is this  
> stuff actually functional?

No, it's unfinished ...  It doesn't write anything out to the
destination because I need to think some more about how containers
shrink relative to filesystems.

Rich.

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