How to increase/grow an image file for a virtual guest system

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Issue

  • Need to increase/grow the image file storing a virtual guest system
  • The guest system uses LVM inside the image file

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Dom0 Host / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 HVM DomU guest
  • Xen Virtualization
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Host / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 KVM guest
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Host / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 KVM guest
  • KVM Virtualization

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