Resize VM disk with KVM

Today i will install Code Ready. You can install Openshift on your laptop. See this link . My RHEL 8.4 VM has a small disk and first i need to resize the disk and then install CodeReady

Using this commands i change from 20 GB to 50GB disk

First you need to locate the vm disk with the command

sudo virsh domblklist rhel8-1

the output was:

Target Source ---–––––––––––––––––––––––––– vda /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel8-2-clone.qcow2 sda -

To resize the disk the VM must be not running and must not have a snapshot.

Just type this command and add 30GB

sudo qemu-img resize /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel8-2-clone.qcow2 +30G

Start the vm and verify the disk using lsblk command

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom vda 252:0 0 50G 0 disk |-vda1 252:1 0 1G 0 part /boot `-vda2 252:2 0 29G 0 part |-rhel-root 253:0 0 26G 0 lvm / `-rhel-swap 253:1 0 3G 0 lvm [SWAP]