How Can I Move An Amazon AMI Image To Proxmox?

[ahriman]

I have some VMs on AWS that are running some very old applications that I'd like to move to Proxmox. I don't have a good way to reinstall/recreate the apps running on those VMs. We're talking code that's like 15 years old and the developers are long gone and I have no one that supports these apps. It's really a miracle that everything still runs and nothing has broken in all these years.

Is there a way to convert those AMI images to a format that can be mounted on a VM so I can move these apps to Proxmox? I found plenty of tutorials about how to move qcow2 images to AWS but nothing about how to move an AMI image to a Proxmox-supported format.

Any ideas?

 

[bbgeek17]

plugging this into google "export ami image", the first result is the official AWS statement on VM exports: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexport_image.html

As the article describes in the first statement: "You can export most AMIs to Citrix Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware vSphere."

So you will probably have to do the transfer in two steps AMI>VMDK>QCOW.
For the second step: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

Good luck

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