Prerequisites

• Java 1.7
• yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk
• AWS and EC2 CLI Tools
• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/set-up-ec2-cli-linux.html
• http://aws.amazon.com/cli/
• Access to an AWS account
• Environment variables
• JAVA_HOME
• /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 on CentOS
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY
• AWS_SECRET_KEY
• EC2_HOME
• Where you’ve uncompressed the EC2 CLI archive.
• Add /usr/local/ec2/bin to your PATH

Procedure

• Name the ova something like <original ova>.ova.tgz
• Untar the OVA
• tar xvf <original ova>.ova.tgz
• Create an S3 bucket to use for image storage during conversion
• This name of this bucket is passed to the ec2-import-image on the -b switch.
• Use ec2-import-image
• ec2-import-instance cloudbolt-5.0.0.4-disk1.vmdk \
  -f VMDK \
  -t t2.medium \
  -p Linux \
  -a x86_64 \
  -b demo-amis \
  -o $AWS_ACCESS_KEY \
  -w $AWS_SECRET_KEY
• Watch conversion status with:
• ec2-describe-conversion-tasks
• It takes a while, but eventually an instance shows up configured with the contents of the VMDK.
• Note: it takes a while even after the conversion process has completed.