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How do I add a partition to a Windows XP Guest after extending the Logical Volume on the host?

I have a CentOS 6 Server running several virtual machines, one of which is a Windows XP Guest. The Windows XP guest is installed on an LVM partition that is formated as NTFS. KVM+Virsh is used for virtualization.

In Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management: There was a single Drive C: that took all 20GB of a 20GB disk.

On the host machine, I extended the LV that Windows is on using:

lvextend -L25G /dev/main_vg/vm_xpvm0

The resize was successful and the LV is now 25GB.

When I reboot the Windows Guest, in Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management, Windows still thinks that the physical drive is 20GB. I expected to find the C: drive as a 20GB partition on a 25GB disk, leaving 5GB of space that I could format and mount as D:.

How do I make Windows recognize that the physical disk has changed size so that I can use that new free space?

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Simple answer- shut down the Windows VM, wait a few minutes and then start the VM. The new space will then appear. A "soft" reboot with the reboot command isn't enough to get Windows to recognize the hardware change, which is why it wasn't working for me on a reboot.

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