[pve-devel] [PATCH docs v2 3/3] vnc-clipboard: change 'live-migration not working' note

Markus Frank m.frank at proxmox.com
Thu Jan 8 11:10:11 CET 2026


The live-migration feature now works with QEMU 10.1:
5d56bff11e ("ui/vdagent: add migration support")

Signed-off-by: Markus Frank <m.frank at proxmox.com>
---
v2:
* update live-migration limitation note instead of removing it entirely

 qm.adoc | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc
index eb6ab4d..6a46d23 100644
--- a/qm.adoc
+++ b/qm.adoc
@@ -1030,13 +1030,10 @@ SPICE, virtio or virgl, you'll need to choose which clipboard to use.
 This is because the default *SPICE* clipboard will be replaced by the
 *VNC* clipboard, if `clipboard` is set to `vnc`.
 
-// TODO: Change NOTE below when live-migration patch is packaged in pve-qemu:
-// https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2025-05/msg05656.html
 NOTE: In order to enable the VNC clipboard, QEMU is configured to use the
-qemu-vdagent device.
-https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-08/msg05393.html[Currently,
-the qemu-vdagent device does not support live migration.] This means that a VM
-with an enabled VNC clipboard cannot be live-migrated at the moment.
+qemu-vdagent device. Live migration support for this device was added with
+QEMU Version 10.1. VMs running on a QEMU or machine version below 10.1
+with an enabled VNC clipboard cannot be live-migrated.
 
 [[qm_usb_passthrough]]
 USB Passthrough
-- 
2.47.3





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