Question
Can I import a vmware image to digital ocean and run it as a droplet
- Posted on November 24, 2018
- Custom ImagesUbuntu 18.04
Asked by 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?
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
Want to learn more? Join the DigitalOcean Community!
Join our DigitalOcean community of over a million developers for free! Get help and share knowledge in Q&A, subscribe to topics of interest, and get courses and tools that will help you grow as a developer and scale your project or business.
Failed many times to upload my custom image changing stuff up waiting for hours and repeat, its annoying with only 20 mbit/s upload :( My Browser has for sure no problem with uploading more than 3gb file size just completed to upload the same 10gb file into google drive from my browser. Made the image public and tryed to import via URL, but seems like googledrive link format isnt recognised correctly
Hi Jarland, I did see that custom images link before asking. The process seems a shade convoluted.
Are the above steps correct?
Hey friend,
Actually you can do that now. This has some information about how to accomplish it:
https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/
Jarland