Increasing the capacity of the "default" pool in KVM virtual machine manager

[anishjp]

Hi

I want to increase the default pool size in KVM virtual machine manager

[root@desktop ~]# virsh pool-info default
Name: default
UUID: 56043827-4dd3-13d7-c64a-89fcb0c700ce
State: running
Persistent: yes
Autostart: yes
Capacity: 49.22 GB
Allocation: 43.91 GB
Available: 5.30 GB

I edited the "default" pool configuration with

virsh pool-edit default
increased the capacity to 60.00GB (in the config file, its in bytes)
increased the available to 16.09GB
saved it

virsh pool-start default
The pool default started, but when I checked the pool capacity, its still looking at 49.22GB

How can I increase the default pool capacity? Am I missing come commands in between? Attached are the list of commands that can be used with pool, not sure if I should use any other commands from this list!

Regards,
Anish

[Dutchy]

Do you actually have the space available that you want to increase?
My default pool just shows the maxed out numbers of the partition where /var resides.

[anishjp]

Hi

@Dutchy, you are right, my / partition is only 50Gb and out of that /var/lib/images/server.img takes 44Gb. I think I need to move my default pool to /home.

Regards,
Anish

[Doug G]

You can also just add another pool using a location with more free space.