By John Kotuby
I am thinking about transferring VM machine assets to Digital Ocean. Can I use an AWS machine image to create a droplet. It would be Ubuntu or Centos based images.
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I think that this should be OK as long as the file format matches one of the following:
- Raw (.img) with an MBR or GPT partition table
- qcow2
- VHDX
- VDI
- VMDK
You can have a look at the documentation here.
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