The steps to upload to Amazon are described in the AWS documentation, but I will repeat the basic steps here for completeness of this post.Īs described here the your AIM user should have the following permissions
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You now have a virtual machine in OVA format which is ready for upload to Amazon for use as an AMI. The only specific requirement is that your hard disk file type should be VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk). Many of these describe a convoluted process of creating an image, converting an image to RAW format and then uploading that.Īs the AWS documentation describes it being possible to use VMDK and VHD images, and these are supported by VirtualBox, I decided to dig deeper and found that it was possible to upload these if they are created by VirtualBox.Ĭreate your VM in VirtualBox using the standard methods. For my purposes, I would much prefer to use a simple VirtualBox image.Īfter, that I narrowed the search and found a number of blog posts describing the procedure. However, it seems to mostly focus on VMware and HyperV. This obviously turned up the AWS documentation which shows that it is possible to upload your own AMIs. The first step to achieving this is to search on Google.
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However, as I want to have these VMs be as close as possible to our customer installed images, I would prefer to create a local image from our custom install media and then upload it to Amazon. It would be possible to use a standard Amazon supplied AMI and user data to perform this. basic postgres, redis, and nginx configuration). These snapshots will be partially configured (e.g. Below I try to describe the current easiest method to convert your custom VM to an AMI.Īs part of improving test coverage I am looking into using Amazon EC2 to launch snapshots of test slaves. However, many are out of date or only cover part of the process. There are many blog posts about uploading a VirtualBox VM image to an AWS AMI.