KubeVirt PR #13497 has removed the project admin’s ability to migrate a VM to prevent abuse of the migration mechanism.
Currently, in OpenShift Virtualization, NIC hotplug / unplug operations require a migration in order to complete successfully:
1. The attached interfaces are added when the target pod is created. Same for the detached interfaces.
2. SR-IOV NIC hotplug requires the invocation of the SR-IOV device plugin which currently only happens on pod creation.
The project admin’s inability to initiate a migration breaks the NIC hotplug / hotunplug feature.

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A cluster admin could grant the project admin the RBAC rules to create VMIM, thus working around this issue.