Resize GenyMotion internal storage space [QEMU]

guide.md

For Non-QEMU users, refer to this reddit thread.

For QEMU users, reddit thread won't work as internal disk is managed by QCOW2 (QEMU Copy-On-Write) files instead of VMDK.

Guide last working on 28-08-2024, Arch Linux.

Prerequitise

• Assume genymotion application is contained at ~/genymotion.
• Assume QCOW2 files are stored at ~/.Genymobile/Genymotion/deployed/<your_device_name>.
• ADB toolkit is installed.
• Host machine is x86_64.

Steps

1. With terminal, cd ~/genymotion/qemu/x86_64/bin/
2. ./qemu-img resize ~/.Genymobile/Genymotion/deployed/<your_device_name>/data.qcow2 20G

Replace 20G with desired size, replace resize with info to get the current size of the internal disk space.

3. Start the android device.
4. cd ~/genymotion
5. ./gmtool admin list
6. The terminal will display a list of active device. Note down the ADB Serial of the device you want to resize.
7. adb connect <ADB_SERIAL_IP-PORT>
8. adb shell
9. df -h
10. The terminal will display filesystems, and mount on.
    Find the Mount on that says /data, and take note of its Filesystem.
11. resize2fs /dev/block/vdb3

Replace /dev/block/vdb3 with actual Filesystem linked to /data.

12. The final message should roughly show The filesystem on /dev/block/vdb3 is now xxxxx (4k) blocks long.
13. exit, and restart the android VM. (Recommend cold-booting)

Afterword

Use an ARM Translation Tool for applications that cant run on x86_64 devices.