For migrating your VMware, Azure, Hyper-V VMs to an Amazon EC2 instance, you must install drivers in the source VM for the converted instance to boot, regardless of the VM conversion method.
Note: NVMe and ENA drivers are required only when destination Amazon EC2 instance type is nitro-based. To check if your instance is nitro-based, see "Current generation instances" in Instance types in the AWS documentation.
Method of conversion | PV drivers | EC2 drivers | NVMe drivers | ENA drivers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon EBS direct API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Commvault HotAdd | No | No | No | No |
VM Import/Export | No | No | Yes | Yes |
You can configure AWS drivers for both Windows and Linux VMs, as follows: