Virtual Hard Disk Size Increase

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Get more disk space. Increase the size of a virtual disk. Expand virtual machine storage capacity. Possible with Qubes, Kicksecure-Qubes, Kicksecure KVM and Kicksecure VirtualBox.

Virtual Machines[edit]

If more disk space is required for virtual hard disks, the good news is this is simple for Kicksecure VMs. Nothing special because it is just another VM image. Any suggestions that are found for your virtualizer will similarly work for Kicksecure. Self Support First Policy applies.

1. Back-up important data.

Either move important files via shared folders or make a full clone of VMs in each snapshot state in case something goes wrong.

2. Select your virtualizer.

VirtualBox

3. On the host: Make a clone of all states of any existing virtual machine in case something goes wrong.

4. On the host: Delete all existing VM snapshots.

5. On the host: Grow the disk.

Either,

  • A) Using the VirtualBox graphical user interface (GUI):

VirtualBox → File → Tools → Virtual Media Manager → select virtual hdd → adjust the size slider

or,

  • B) Using the command line. See footnote. [1]

6. Install a partitioning tool.

Install a tool such as gparted that can grow the filesystem.

Install package(s) gparted following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the gparted package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends gparted

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) gparted is complete.

7. Start the partitioning tool.

Start a terminal.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! lxsudo gparted

8. Claim the new space.

  • Increase the size of the filesystem.
  • The user probably does not wish to create a new partition. Instead the exiting partition should be expanded.

9. Inside VM: Apply changes and shut down.

10. Done.

The procedure is complete.

KVM

3. On the host: Delete all existing snapshots.

4. On the host: Increase the disk size.

1G below should be replaced with the amount of memory to be added in gigabytes.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! qemu-img resize vmdisk.img +1G

5. Install GParted in Kicksecure.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install gparted

6. Resize the filesystem to claim the newly added space.

  • Increase the size of the filesystem.
  • The user probably does not wish to create a new partition. Instead the exiting partition should be expanded.

7. Done.

Qubes

2. Refer to the Resizing Disk Imagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon Qubes OS user documentation.

3. Done.

Build from Source Code[edit]

Refer to Build Kicksecure from Source Code and utilize this command line parameter:

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! --vmsize 200G

See Also[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ↑ Find the folder of the virtual hdd. Run the following command. Notes:
    • Adjust the filename of the virtual hdd.
    • Adjust 100000 to for example 200000.
    Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! VBoxManage modifyhd "Kicksecure-disk1.vdi" --resize 100000
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