PBS live-restore without autostart

[Stril]

Hi!

To speed up restores, I want to use live-restore. The feature is working fine, but sometimes, I have to start the VM with disconnected ethernet to avoid IP conflicts.

Is there any possibility to user live-restore, but to:

• start with disconnected ethernet

or

• to disable autostart to be able to manually change the hardware settings prior to the boot?

I need to be able to change IP+MAC to be able to spin-up an older version of a VM, while running the prod-VM.

Thank you and best wishes

 

[fiona]

Hi,
it currently can be done via CLI: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5381#c1
For UI support there is an open feature request: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3564

 

[Stril]

Thank you for your answer!
CLI would be sufficient for me, but I do not really get it:

When I live-restore a VM with:

qm create xxx --live-restore 1 --storage rbd --archive <BACKUP> --net0 link_down=1

qm create xxx --live-restore 1 --storage rbd --archive pbs:backup/vm/xxx/2026-03-16T12:30:59Z --net0 virtio=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,link_down=1

How can I enable as soon, as I have changed the IP inside the VM?
The config seems to be fully locked, until EVERYTHING is restored...

can't lock file '/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-100.conf' - got timeout (500)