Live migration of a VM with a vGPU device fails with "HostDeviceNotLiveMigratable: VMI uses a PCI host devices"

Solution Verified - Updated 2025-11-07T09:53:05+00:00 -

Issue

When attempting to perform a live migration of a Virtual Machine (VM) that has a virtual GPU (vGPU) device attached, the migration fails. The VM status shows the following error: HostDeviceNotLiveMigratable: VMI uses a PCI host devices.

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