Convert Amazon AMI to VMware image
6,490
If you still have access to the instance, I believe the simplest way would be using "dd" to copy it off to a raw file (possibly just directly piping over SSH to the destination system like in ssh your.ec2-syst.em 'dd if=/dev/sdh bs=1M | gzip' | gunzip | dd of=/tmp/ec2-image.raw) and then using something like qemu-img to convert the raw image to a VMDK file.
Related videos on Youtube
18 : 44
VM server OVF image migration via S3 to aws
04 : 44
How do I use AWS VM Import/Export to create an EC2 instance based on my on-premises server?
03 : 47
How do I Import a VM as an Image using VM Import/Export to Amazon EC2?
17 : 45
Import / Upload / Migrate a Windows 10 Virtual Machine to Amazon AWS Tutorial.
01 : 55
DevOps & SysAdmins: Convert Amazon AMI to VMware image (2 Solutions!!)
Author by
Tek Mun
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
-
Tek Mun almost 2 years
How can I convert an amazon ami image to a vmware image I can run locally in vmware player?
-
Tom O'Connor over 12 yearsYep. This is the only way to do it.
-
Tek Mun over 12 yearsAny recommended articles, blogs that shows how to use qemu-img to create VMDK file that runs in VMware player?
