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

Dominik Csapak d.csapak at proxmox.com
Thu Jan 8 16:31:51 CET 2026


Reviewed-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com>

On 1/8/26 11:11 AM, Markus Frank wrote:
> 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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