Export VM from VirtualBox to OCI
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IntroductionVirtualBox supports export a local VM into OCI. There is the Oracle VM VirtualBox Technical Paper “ Journey to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Oracle VM VirtualBox” which contains enough general information how to apply this feature for OCI. This article is intended to explain some technical details more precisely or to cover the topics which may be omitted or can’t be described in the white paper. Some quotations from the white paper or the references to this one will be present here. Also some text from Official OCI documentation is quoted here. The article has no aim to replace the white paper, moreover the better way is to use one together with the white paper.
Carefully read the next OCI documentation to avoid any simple mistakes on the beginning:
- Bringing Your Own Image – here you find the supported OSs which can be exported to the OCI. The other OSs may also be exported but there are no guaranties regarding their correct functioning in OCI.
- Importing Custom Windows Images – describes the requirements for Windows OS which your on-premise VM should comply.
- Importing Custom Linux Images – describes the requirements for Linix OS which your on-premise VM should comply.
- Enabling Serial Console Access for Imported Linux Images – important item in case of any troubles with connection to an instance.
- Known OCI issues - The good start point where user can find some answers about his issues.
It’s supposed that user already has credentials to login to OCI and knows some basic stuff about OCI like IAM, VCN, Subnet, Object Storage.
Content Part 1 - General logic and Prerequisites Part 2 - Setup SSH on Linux VM Part 3 - Setup Serial Console Connection on Linux VM Part 4 - Setup VirtIO drivers on Linux VM Part 5 - Network stuff Part 6 - OCI side preparation Part 7 - Setup firewall on OCI instance Part 8 - Export to OCI via the command “VBoxManage export”
https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/export-vm-from-virtualbox-to-oci
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