diff --git a/start-linux.js b/start-linux.js
index 99a099a..c0d7028 100644
--- a/start-linux.js
+++ b/start-linux.js
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 const http = require('http');
 const child = require("child_process");
+let makedisk = "qemu-img create vm.img 30G" // make a 30GB disk
 let qemucmd = "qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc :1 -m 1G"
+child.execSync(makedisk)
 child.execSync(qemucmd)
 http.createServer(function (req, res) {
   res.write('Server running at IP 127.0.0.1:5901 (VNC)'); //write a response to the client