Download EC2 image and run it on your local PC
In this video, I will show you how we can download an AWS EC2 instance image to your local PC and run it. Below, I have mentioned all the steps and commands used in this video.
Summary of Steps:
1. Create an AMI of your EC2 instance.
2. Create a volume from the AMI snapshot.
3. Attach the volume to an EC2 instance
4. Create a disk image using dd.
5. Download the image using scp to your local machine.
$scp -i /path/to/your-key.pem ec2-user@your-ec2-ip:/path/to/my-volume-image.gz /local/path/
6. Convert the image to a usable format.
$sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
if we vmware then use following command
$qemu-img convert -f raw my-volume-image.img -O vmdk my-volume-image.vmdk
if we virtual box then use following command
$qemu-img convert -f raw my-volume-image -O vdi my-volume-image.vdi
7. Import it into your virtualization software (VirtualBox or VMware).
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