[pve-devel] [PATCH docs v2 2/2] lvm storage: document TPM snaphshot limitations

Maximiliano Sandoval m.sandoval at proxmox.com
Fri Sep 12 09:53:40 CEST 2025


Users who read about this feature unexpectedly run into this limitation.

Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval at proxmox.com>
---
 pve-storage-lvm.adoc | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pve-storage-lvm.adoc b/pve-storage-lvm.adoc
index fc2a8ef..6499978 100644
--- a/pve-storage-lvm.adoc
+++ b/pve-storage-lvm.adoc
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ The snapshot functionality is managed by the PVE storage system.
 +
 Enabling or disabling this flag only affects newly created virtual disk volumes.
 
+NOTE: It is currently not possible to store TPM disk images in qcow2 format
+footnote:[https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4693],
+preventing taking snapshots as volume chain of these images.
+
 WARNING: Snapshots as volume chains are currently a **technology preview** in {pve}.
 
 .Configuration Example (`/etc/pve/storage.cfg`)
-- 
2.47.3





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