Thanks to Stefan and Thomas for the suggestions.

Changes from v1:
* update parameter description
* warn instead of die

Signed-off-by: Fabian Ebner <f.eb...@proxmox.com>
---
 PVE/API2/Qemu.pm | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
index 8be0b7b..b355051 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
@@ -3257,7 +3257,7 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
             }),
            online => {
                type => 'boolean',
-               description => "Use online/live migration.",
+               description => "Use online/live migration if VM is running. 
Ignored if VM is stopped.",
                optional => 1,
            },
            force => {
@@ -3318,9 +3318,6 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
 
        my $vmid = extract_param($param, 'vmid');
 
-       raise_param_exc({ targetstorage => "Live storage migration can only be 
done online." })
-           if !$param->{online} && $param->{targetstorage};
-
        raise_param_exc({ force => "Only root may use this option." })
            if $param->{force} && $authuser ne 'root@pam';
 
@@ -3341,8 +3338,14 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
        if (PVE::QemuServer::check_running($vmid)) {
            die "cant migrate running VM without --online\n"
                if !$param->{online};
+       } else {
+           warn "VM isn't running. Doing offline migration instead." if 
$param->{online};
+           $param->{online} = 0;
        }
 
+       raise_param_exc({ targetstorage => "Live storage migration can only be 
done online." })
+           if !$param->{online} && $param->{targetstorage};
+
        my $storecfg = PVE::Storage::config();
 
        if( $param->{targetstorage}) {
-- 
2.20.1


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