diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cfdceb4a..3e6e8469 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ The **patch** part changes is incremented if multiple releases happen the same m
 * fail2ban: add default variable fail2ban_dbpurgeage_default
 * fail2ban: add variable fail2ban_sshd_port to configure sshd port
 * metricbeat/logstash: fix Ansible syntax
-* kvm-host: release 23.09 for migrate-vm.sh
+* kvm-host: release 23.09.1 for migrate-vm.sh
 * nagios-nrpe: add a NRPE check-local command with completion.
 * nagios-nrpe: add a proper monitoring plugin for glusterfs (on servers, not for clients)
 * php: add new variable to disable oveeriding settings of php-fpm default pool (www)
diff --git a/kvm-host/files/migrate-vm.sh b/kvm-host/files/migrate-vm.sh
index 6803450a..09b7f6f3 100644
--- a/kvm-host/files/migrate-vm.sh
+++ b/kvm-host/files/migrate-vm.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # * migrate "from"
 # * switch to Bash to use local and readonly variables
 
-VERSION="23.09"
+VERSION="23.09.1"
 
 show_version() {
     cat <<END
@@ -84,6 +84,22 @@ check_drbd_sync() {
     fi
 }
 
+drbd_interface() {
+    drbd_peer=${1:-}
+    ip route get "${drbd_peer}" | grep --only-matching --extended-regexp 'dev\s+\S+' | awk '{print $2}'
+}
+
+interface_speed() {
+    interface=${1:-}
+    file="/sys/class/net/${interface}/speed"
+    if [ -e "${file}" ]; then
+        head -n 1 "${file}"
+    else
+        # fallback on 1Gb/s if unknown
+        echo "1000"
+    fi
+}
+
 drbd_peers() {
     drbd_config_file=$(drbd_config_file "${1:-}")
 
@@ -210,6 +226,13 @@ migrate_vm_to() {
     vm=${1:-}
     remote_ip=${2:-}
 
+    drbd_interface=$(drbd_interface "${remote_ip}")
+    interface_speed=$(interface_speed "${drbd_interface}")
+    migrate_speed=$(echo "${interface_speed}*0.8/8" | bc)
+
+    # echo "Migration speed set to ${migrate_speed}MiB/s"
+    virsh --quiet migrate-setspeed "${vm}" "${migrate_speed}"
+
     export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI="qemu:///system"
     virsh migrate --live --unsafe --verbose "${vm}" "qemu+ssh://${remote_ip}/system" "tcp://${remote_ip}/"
 }