Issue with qm remote-migrate: Target Node Reports as Too Old Despite Newer Version

[geffin]

Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on migrating a VM from one Proxmox host to another using the qm remote-migrate command with an API token and the fingerprint of the destination host.

• Source Host Version: Proxmox 8.1.4
• Destination Host Version: Proxmox 8.2.5

However, the migration fails with the following error:

ERROR: migration aborted (duration 00:00:00): target node is too old (manager <= 7.2-13) and doesn't support new cloudinit section

This error suggests that the target node is running an older version of Proxmox (< 7.2-13), but the destination node is actually on 8.2.5, which is a newer version. I’ve double-checked the versions on both nodes, and everything seems correct.

Here’s the command I’m running for the migration:

qm remote-migrate 510 510 'apitoken=PVEAPIToken=root@pam!pvetransfer=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,host=xxx.xxx.xx.xxx,fingerprint=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' --target-bridge vmbr0 --target-storage STORE1 --online

Has anyone come across this issue before? Any ideas or suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

ERROR: migration aborted (duration 00:00:00): target node is too old (manager <= 7.2-13) and doesn't support new cloudinit section

Its seems to expect different version of cloudinit.
Try to disable/remove the cloudinit driver and try again

 

[geffin]

Thanks for the help buddy, I have removed the cloudinit driver and the migration went through successfully. So am I right in assuming that the cloudinit versions of the source and destination host needs to be the same?

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

So am I right in assuming that the cloudinit versions of the source and destination host needs to be the same?

Apparently that is the case.