Hi everyone. I have been trying to expand a drive for a VM. But i cant find the expand option un the new “Instances”. I can edit the root disk, and i have my boot drive i can choose a drive, but not expand it anywhere. Under the “Virtulization” error, I knew where to find it, and I keep looking …

I resolved it. The solution was getting the zvol, and changing the volmode=default First get at list of the zvols: zfs list -t volume Then change the mode back: zfs set volmode=default <pool/zvol/path> Then the VM’s worked again!

Does nobody know how to expand a drive? It should be such a simple task?

The “Instances” is a dead end, will be removed. Upgrade your system to the latest version and use the classic virtualization.

Thank you for the hint, the “old” was much easier. But, now i have “Virtual Machines” back, but the VM cant start. The mount point is gone, and I can’t find the disks from now "“Containers”.

What about zfs set volsize=<new size> <pool>/path/to/<virtual disk> ? Be careful! If you accidentally shrink it because of a typo in the new size the data will be gone.

Well the thing is I cant find the path at all, i have tried searching for the file, but there are no disk drives with the names as in the now called “Containers” If i edit the VM in “Containers” i can select the volume, bot there is no path, as with the old style.

Trying to start the VM, I get this error: [EFAULT] VM will not start as DISK Device: /dev/zvol/“Datastore”/.ix-virt/custom/“VM_DRIVENAME” device(s) are not available. But there is now no path called “/dev/zvol”. But i have the datastore in "/mnt/“Datastore” path, but no drives under that path eit…

Ehm. “zfs: command not found” ah. Sudo. :wink:

Neither of these is a zvol with the trailing /. Please post the exact output of the zfs command.

Expanding drives in "Instances"

Apps and Virtualization

wiking_dk September 9, 2025, 5:10pm 10

So, I get a path
“/Data1/.ix-virt/custom/”
and
“Data1/.ix-virt/virtual-machines/”
Data1 is the name of my volume, but i have no idea on where “.ix-virt” would be.

I’m looking at this post:

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Expanding drives in "Instances"

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