Re: [Xen-users] Hot resizing xfs domU.

[Guy Roussin <guy.roussin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Pasi,

Nice to see you are working on adding this support.

PS: Sorry if i use "hot" instead of "online" (i need to improve my english)

Guy
> > With xen (lenny), I created my domU on LV. I create
> > domU in xfs (/).
> > And i can hot resize domU :
> > On dom0, the 'lvresize-L +1 G mylv' goes well (clvm)
> > But in the domU (mylv) 'xfs_growfs /dev/xvda2'
> > has no effect: the domU has not yet taken
> > aware of the expansion of its disk. I need to reboot
> > the domU ...
> >
> > Is there a chance to make hot resizing the domU?
> >
> >     
> Xen currently doesn't have support for online resizing domU disks [1].
>
> You could add another new disk to the domU though, on the fly, and then
> if you use LVM also in the domU, you could pvcreate+vgextend there online..
>
> -- Pasi
>
> [1] I've been working on adding support for it, but it's not ready yet,
> and I don't currently have much time for it.
>   

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