Why cant I import SLES VM to AWS EC2?

SUSE Public Cloud Amazon-EC2
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Is there a technical reason this isnt supported?

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

Does anyone have a workaround?

Thanks,

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I am guessing this is just old data. For example:

http://aws.amazon.com/partners/suse/faqs/

mentions the option to upload VMs directly form SUSE Studio into AWS,
which is really neat. Also, Amazon provides server templates for various
distributions, including both openSUSE and SLES.

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[QUOTE=spruch;24301]Is there a technical reason this isnt supported?

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

Does anyone have a workaround?

Thanks,[/QUOTE]

This is a limitation with the Amazon tools.

As far as a work around is concerned you can try to convert the vmdk file to a rwa disk image with qemu-img convert and then follow the upload procedure that is documented in the kiwi documentation (http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/kiwi/doc/#sec.ec2.using

HTH,
Robert

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Amazon has announced the support for VM Import for SUSE Linux Enterprise:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-vm-import-options-for-ec2/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/12/announcing-new-features-for-amazon-ec2-vm-import-export-and-aws-management-portal-for-vcenter/