Virtual Box On an Amazon Ec2 Cloud server- Can it Be Done?

[Sands2k]

Hello,

Can I load Virtual Box and or a VM created in Virtual Box onto a Amazon E2 cloud server?
how do I do so?

I wish to run windows Guests and I don't know Linux.

Id guess I chose a Windows based Ec2.

Any tips, vids, etc would be greatly appreciated.

[BillG]

Probably not. The Ec2 machine is probably a virtual machine itself, and running a vm in a vm (called nested virtualization) is not supported.

[pkasarski]

Can I load Virtual Box and or a VM created in Virtual Box onto a Amazon E2 cloud server?

VirtualBox no, load VM created in VirtualBox, yes.

If you want to transfer a VM created in VirtualBox to EC2 you will probably want to export the image and settings to some format that EC2 understands, then upload it. This seems to have more details: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=61850 Might want to look at this too: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/late ... onEC2.html (I have not done this myself.)

[Sands2k]

Can I import a Vm I created in Virtual-box?


I thought that AWS only supported VMWare.


At AWS:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/lates ... sites.html

Importing Image Formats into Amazon EC2

AWS supports the following image formats for importing both disks and VMs into Amazon EC2:

RAW format for importing disks and VMs.

Dynamic Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) image formats, which are compatible with Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Xen virtualization products. VHDX images are not currently supported.

Stream-optimized ESX Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) image format, which is compatible with VMware ESX and VMware vSphere virtualization products.

Note

You can only import VMDK files into Amazon EC2 that were created through the OVF export process in VMware.

Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) image format, which supports importing images with multiple hard disks