How to extend a virtual disk in a KVM guest ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

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

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • KVM Virtualization
    • Virtual Guest (Windows, Linux, etc)
    • Storage backed by Qemu Copy-on-Write qcow2 files

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