My goal is to migrate a VM from VMWare to AWS EC2.
I exported the "OVF+VMDK" file from VMWare ESXI 6.5. I also converted to an OVA file to be able to test both OVF and OVA format.
I followed the tutorial provided by AWS to import a virtual machine as AMI. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-image-import.html
I get an appropriate "pending" status when running the "aws ec2 import-image" command. When I query the status later, I receive an error message:
"Status": "deleted",
"StatusMessage": "ClientError: Unsupported: Not enough free disk space in /boot to proceed with import.",
I am a bit confused about this error message. Both OVF and OVA give the same error message. Importing the same VM to virtualbox works fine.
The OVA contains a "Debian 7" machine and /boot is taking 18Megs. It is less than what I see on more recent machines with 50megs of /boot directory.
The requirements for Linux seem to be ok. My boot is a Grub. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/prepare-vm-image.html
Did anyone experiment this problem ?
Thanks !
