[pve-devel] [PATCH docs v1] clipboard: add hint that live-migration does not work

[pve-devel] [PATCH docs v1] clipboard: add hint that live-migration does not work

[Markus Frank]

Reported in the community forum:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/133838/post-774638

Signed-off-by: Markus Frank <m.frank@proxmox.com>
---
 qm.adoc | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc
index 8b9e096..7501c0d 100644
--- a/qm.adoc
+++ b/qm.adoc
@@ -1031,6 +1031,14 @@ 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.
+
 [[qm_usb_passthrough]]
 USB Passthrough
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- 
2.39.5



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[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH docs v1] clipboard: add hint that live-migration does not work

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:04:34 +0200, Markus Frank wrote:
> Reported in the community forum:
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/133838/post-774638
> 
> 

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] clipboard: add hint that live-migration does not work
      commit: 70735ec77c33216e66710f394750c4f525006970


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