Resolving Live Migration Issue on Proxmox VE
The Problem
Live migration on Proxmox VE involves moving a running virtual machine from one host to another without causing downtime. However, administrators may encounter situations where live migrations fail, leading to service disruptions and potential data loss.
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migration status error: failed - Unable to write to socket: Broken pipe
Proxmox VE - Migration task log
The solution
Allow TCP forwarding on SSH daemon
Edit the main SSH daemon's configuration file with your favorite text editor; on each Proxmox VE host, and make sure that the below line is present:
AllowTcpForwarding yes
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
After that, the SSH service needs to be restarted:
systemctl restart sshd
Shell