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: