Proxmox Live Migration: How It Actually Works, and Why It Sometimes Won't

Clustering gets you live migration, moving a running guest from one node to another with no downtime, but “it just works” is doing a lot of hiding in that sentence. Live migration has real mechanics underneath it, real prerequisites that aren’t optional, and a short list of device types and configurations that simply cannot migrate live no matter how the storage is set up. Knowing which category a given VM or container falls into before you click migrate saves you from finding out mid-migration, which is the worse time to learn it. ...

October 13, 2026 · 8 min