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+The normal approach to resizing an ntfs partition (losetup cfdisk,
+losetup -o32256 ntfsresize) will not work as you would expect because losetup
+and qemu, in the absense of real hardware, will invent disagreeing drive
+geometries which Windows' boot sector depends upon to start. It is conceptually
+simplest to find a means of running (c|s|)fdisk and ntfsresize from inside qemu
+itself.
+
+http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
+
+If you are using a qcow2 image, you probably need to
+
+* qemu-img old.qcow2 new.raw
+* truncate -s 100GiB new.raw # or what have you
+* qemu-img new.raw old.qcow2
+
+It is not clear why qcow2 images do not support resizing.