Can VirtualBox be executed under Amazon EC2 instance?

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Vladimir Dyuzhev picture Vladimir Dyuzhev · Sep 29, 2011 · Viewed 55.4k times · Source

We have a test system where a VirtualBox VM snapshot is started before each major test. The snapshot contains a state of the tested system specific to the test.

This is a memory-intensive testing.

There is an idea to move the daily test run into Amazon EC2 Large instance (7.5G of RAM).

My understanding though is that EC2 is a supervisor itself. Will it allow another VM software (VirtualBox) to get started under it?

Answer

Vladimir Dyuzhev picture Vladimir Dyuzhev · Jan 31, 2013

Well, Amazon now allows to import VirtualBox and VMWare VMs. Not all operation systems are supported yet, but they work on it:

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport/

So there is no need to run VirtualBox under Amazon, one can just import and clone the VM as an instance.

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