PM 6.0 + Win2016 VM - unable to snapshot (with RAM included)

jaceqp

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Hi there.
I performed a fresh installation of PM on a brand new Fujitsu RX2520 server.
Then, after some PM setup and tweak I performed a Win2016 VM installation.
After few days of work (updates, installing windows software etc.) I let the VM go in production environment.
Config as folows:


Code:
:~# qm config 100
agent: 1
balloon: 32768
boot: cd
bootdisk: scsi1
cores: 8
hostpci0: 65:00
hotplug: disk,usb
ide0: none,media=cdrom
ide2: local:iso/virtio-win-0.1.171.iso,media=cdrom,size=363020K
memory: 49152
name: Win2016
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win10
scsi1: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-1,size=150G
scsi2: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0,size=300G
scsi4: backup_storage:100/vm-100-disk-0.qcow2,backup=0,size=200G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
sockets: 1
startup: up=5
vmgenid: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Pretty much only interesting feature is pci passthrough setup for entire device 65:00 (dedicated PCI-E NIC). Established with intel_iommu=on on GRUB.

Everything works like a charm... except I can't make a VM's snapshot with RAM included :rolleyes:
I get the error:
VM 100 qmp command 'savevm-start' failed - State blocked by non-migratable device '0000:00:10.0/vfio-pci'

Now, I admit I wasn't using snapshot that often so I wonder if including RAM is a general issue or it matters with ballooning for example? Or is it a VM OS dependency? If not, perhapse 'include RAM' is not recommended anyway?
 

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