How to extend a virtual disk in a KVM guest?

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Issue

  • The KVM guest needs more storage space on the disk.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • KVM virtualization
  • Virtual Guest (Windows, Linux, etc)
  • storage is backed by a image file

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