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by nspragmatic 5343 days ago
... none of which are the format in question.

> The VM Import process currently supports VMware ESX VMDK images, Citrix Xen VHD images and Microsoft Hyper-V VHD images for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (R2) and 2008 (R1 & R2).

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You are correct.

Fortunately, the format if question is an open specification[1], so you can use a[2] number[3] of[4] tools[5] to convert the OVF to an interim format.

That is, obviously, a pretty ugly workaround.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format

[2] http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/

[3] http://www.citrix.com/english/ss/downloads/details.asp?downl...

[4] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#ovf

[5] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/vi...

I guess you can use the VMWare one to get it to an AMI importable format.