Jun 30, 2012
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Change amount of Ram and CPU cores in KVM

Question

How can I Change amount of Ram and CPU cores for a virtual machine in KVM that is already created?
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Asked by user126492

Answer

You can edit its XML from command-line with:

virsh name_vhost

Then, you only have to search the <memory> tag and modify it

Keep in mind that the memory allocation is in kilobytes, so to allocate 512MB of memory, use 512 * 1024, or 524288.

Answered by Javier Martinez

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