Increasing committed memory for VM

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I am running QEMU/KVM VM for Win10 on my TW machine and it seems that installing my Thunderbird email account may be using up all the memory I committed to the disk when building the VM. I started with 40GB and it seems I need a good bit more.

Can I increase the memory or do I have to start all over again?

While on the subject of memory I tried increasing the memory for the VM and also allowed sharing but this does not solve the problem as I suspect it is the disk memory that is the culprit. Am I right?

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Shut off VM and do:
qemu-img resize <path-to-qcow2> +10G

Then boot up and resize the partition and FS.

I think this should work. It has been a while since I had to do this.

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Perfect and many thanks. I was able to add +20G and system is working much better now.
Thanks again,
Budgie2

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How is it related to memory?

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It’s not :wink:

While on the subject of memory I tried increasing the memory for the VM and also allowed sharing but this does not solve the problem as I suspect it is the disk memory that is the culprit.

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I had, of course, been referring to disk storage capacity.

The subject of memory came up because I have been getting warnings from my cloud account that there was insufficient memory for dealing with large files. This was what made me consider memory but I later found that the underlying issue was disk capacity on my local machine because my initial VM build had not taken into account the amount required.

Thank you for the question. I do not know the correct answer to your question but would be interested to know.

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