Hot Resizing of KVM Virtual Machine Resources
To perform hot resizing operations on a KVM virtual machine, the virtual machine must be initially configured with parameters that define its maximum capacity. This guide demonstrates how to dynamically adjust disk, network, memory, and CPU resources without shuting down the guest operating system.
Disk Hot Resizing
1.1 Hot-Adding a New Disk
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Automating KVM VM Deployment with cloud-init for Password-Based SSH Access
Download an Ubuntu 22.04 cloud image for your architecture:
wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.img -O base-image.qcow2
Create a cloud-init configuration file named bootstrap.yaml to initialize system settings:
#cloud-config
users:
- name: operator
sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
shell: /bin/ba ...
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