virt-manager how to create vhd on the home partition.

abdulee · 05-06-2020, 03:37 PM

My host machine is running Arch linux.
I basically have 4 partitions one for root, swap, boot and home
My root partition is only 30GiB. Now creating a vm using virt-manager GUI tool I wonder how can I create virtual hard disk on my home partition where there is most of the space.
I am very new to virtualization and in general never used it much so your help is very appreciated.

berndbausch · 05-08-2020, 12:57 AM

virt-manager allows you to create various storage services. Create a non-default one that you locate at /home. These instructions should help: https://blog.wikichoon.com/2014/07/v...t-storage.html (they are a bit oldbut seem to be well-written; I found them with an internet search).

Another option is moving /var/lib/libvirt to /home and creating a symbolic link to it on/var/lib.