[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
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2.47.3
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