Hi there, I just setup a (Citrix) XenServer, and had a Windows 2003 server guest, but by default the system made the hard drive 8GB (tiny). I am just learning Xen, so I missed the setting when creating. How are others going about expanding hard drive space on Windows guests? I mean linux would be easy, just use the tools, and expand LVM, however since this is a windows guest...... Just wanted to find out what the community is doing prior to trying some 3rd party partitioning tool that supports nondestructive expanding. Thanks! Dustin _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Fajar A. Nugraha
2009-Apr-03 22:45 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] expanding windows VM hard drive space
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:11 AM, dnk <d.k.emaillists@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi there, > > I just setup a (Citrix) XenServer, and had a Windows 2003 server guest, but > by default the system made the hard drive 8GB (tiny). I am just learning > Xen, so I missed the setting when creating. > > How are others going about expanding hard drive space on Windows guests?I''m not sure how XenServer allocates domU storage (files? LVM?) as I never use it (I use RHEL, bundled Xen), but this thread might help http://www.nabble.com/resize-file-disk-iommu-xp-won%27t-boot-tt21622236.html#a21622236 As an alternative, I believe you should be able to add aditional disk and set Windows to use Dynamic Disk (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044) Be sure to backup domU first. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users