[ubuntu-cloud] Convert VMDK to EC2 instance

[Nicolas Barcet]

On 11/05/2010 03:40 PM, James Thomas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have spent some considerable time getting a test cobol system to run
> on a 64bit version of 10.04.
> 
> I would like to convert either the running image or the vmdk to an EBS
> image.
> 
> The current size of the vmdk is 50GB
> 
> Is there any way of doing this?

I would try using qemu-img to start with, to convert the format to raw,
then try to bundle it up, pointing to the current 10.04 kernel and
ramdisk on EC2.

Never tried, but I think it should work and am sure Scott will correct
me quickly if I am mistaking...

Nick


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