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Sujit
Sujit

Reputation: 2441

EC2 instance image on VirtualBOX?

Is there any way of getting the saved EC2 instance image and running it on virtualbox on my personal computer?

Upvotes: 39

Views: 12409

Answers (3)

Diogo Melo
Diogo Melo

Reputation: 2163

The amazon tool is very restrictive. But you can dump your EBS, download it and make a VDI image out of it. I have done it with two of my EC2 instances and described the steps on my blog.

http://diogomelo.net/blog/16/export-amazon-ec2-instance-to-virtualbox

Upvotes: 2

Ryan
Ryan

Reputation: 24422

The official way is only if it was originally imported into EC2

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ExportingEC2Instances.html

If you have previously imported an instance into Amazon EC2, you can use the command line tools to export that instance to Citrix Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware vSphere. Exporting an instance can be useful when you want to deploy a copy of your EC2 instance in your on-site virtualization environment.

You cannot export an instance unless it was previously imported into AWS

Upvotes: 7

adkatrit
adkatrit

Reputation: 153

it looks like you can directly import/export ec2 and virtualbox/vmware images.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport/

Upvotes: 2

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