[Phpwm] OT: Run AWS EC2 image in Virtual Box

[Carl Sutton]

I have done a blog post on this
http://dogmatic69.com/blog/server-admin/19-moving-ec2-instances-across-regions-on-amazon-web-services-aws

you just need a running similar (or same is better) install already
and then just follow the instructions. the post is one ec2 to another,
but the other could easily be a VM

I have done it to a vm using this method

Carl Sutton
dogmatic69.com



On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Pete Graham <petegraham1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to copy an Amazon Web Services EC2
> image of a server back to a local machine and run it in Virtual Box?
> From research I can see that it's possible to do the reverse, take a
> Virtual Box image and migrate it to AWS, but I'm not sure if you can
> copy a live server setup to Virtual Box for development.
>
> I've recently taken over a project being hosted on AWS EC2. The
> project requires linux and a fair bit of custom configuration to run,
> so this seamed the best way to setup a dev environment (our
> development machines are Macs).
>
> I appreciate the this question isn't PHP related, are people ok with
> server infrastructure/hosting questions being discussed here? Is there
> a more appropriate list for this sort of thing? If there isn't then
> then maybe one should be created. I plan to post this on on
> http://serverfault.com/ too, but from my knowledge that's more
> question & answer compared to open ended discussion.
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
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