Virt-Manager fills up my tiny (20 GB) root folder while installing guest
by preWarp from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6D9YG)
Hello. Finally ditched VirtualBox and decided to install a kvm hypervisor with Debian as the guest OS. The host operating system is fedora server and is client accessed by fedora mate desktop and virt-manager over Open-SSH. I also use SSH AskPass - I don't know how well known askpass is but it makes it possible for me to login remotely, before using it I was getting errors when ever I tried to login with a combo of keys and the password for the account of the user on the remote host.
One thing worth mentioning is I was never able to access my guest ISO file on the remote host...I was thorough: conf files for QEMU and libvirtd; permissions and ACLs. Many attempts and configurations.
After using askpass suddenly there was an un-greyed out button to choose a local file to access the guest OS ISO.
I used an ISO on the client to install the guest.
I then used the guest installer for guided partitioning of a 6 TB raid 0 device, mounted on a folder, on the remote machine.
Somehow half way through installation, I see a status bar with message installing <some package> and then my root folder gets filled to capacity.
Should I try reinstalling my client operating system and make the root partition larger? This way the next time I have told the installer to use a qcow2 hard drive file of 700 GB (on my raid) my client side root folder will have more room for whatever may be going on? I have no idea why I am seeing my root folder getting full. Maybe it is a temporary swap during install of the guest? Maybe the installer on the virtual machine is installing on my client root folder? Is my client application software obsolete?
One thing worth mentioning is I was never able to access my guest ISO file on the remote host...I was thorough: conf files for QEMU and libvirtd; permissions and ACLs. Many attempts and configurations.
After using askpass suddenly there was an un-greyed out button to choose a local file to access the guest OS ISO.
I used an ISO on the client to install the guest.
I then used the guest installer for guided partitioning of a 6 TB raid 0 device, mounted on a folder, on the remote machine.
Somehow half way through installation, I see a status bar with message installing <some package> and then my root folder gets filled to capacity.
Should I try reinstalling my client operating system and make the root partition larger? This way the next time I have told the installer to use a qcow2 hard drive file of 700 GB (on my raid) my client side root folder will have more room for whatever may be going on? I have no idea why I am seeing my root folder getting full. Maybe it is a temporary swap during install of the guest? Maybe the installer on the virtual machine is installing on my client root folder? Is my client application software obsolete?