Can I import a vmware image to digital ocean and run it as a droplet

November 24, 2018 3.7k views
Custom Images Ubuntu 18.04
pranavlal
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pranavlal

Hi all,
I have an Ubuntu image that I am running on my local desktop computer. This image has been created by using vmware player. I want to train a machine learning model using tensorflow. I am running out of ram on my local desktop which has 6GB. I want to load this vmware image to digital ocean, give it more ram and run the training for my machine learning model. Can I do this using the custom image feature? If yes, how?

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jarland MOD November 24, 2018

Hey friend,

Actually you can do that now. This has some information about how to accomplish it:

https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/

Jarland

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pranavlal November 24, 2018

Hi Jarland,
I did see that custom images link before asking. The process seems a shade convoluted.

  1. I need to install cloud init.
  2. I then need to get the images to spaces.
  3. I can then import the image as a droplet.

Are the above steps correct?

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  • jarland MOD November 24, 2018

    You can either upload it direct or use any externally accessible URL to be imported from, Spaces being an option for uploading somewhere that gives you a URL to paste.

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