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Unable to Import Windows 10 OVA file in AWS EC2

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Hi,

I have been working for 1 week to export a Windows 10 machine that I built in VMWare Workstation Pro 17 to EC2. Every time I get the following message after it hangs on status Active status message Booting for about 2 hours:

FirstBootFailure: This import request failed because the instance failed to boot and establish network connectivity.

What have I done:

  • Tried Windows 10 Pro and also Enterprise
  • Windows updates installed
  • Windows Firewall disabled
  • RDP Enabled
  • My administrator and user (offline) account have a password and the administrator account is enabled
  • Automatic login is disabled
  • The registry value RealTimeIsUniversal has been set to 1
  • Tried with sysprep and also without sysprep

I have no idea what could be going on anymore.

Can someone help me with this?

  • Yordi
    a year ago

    Thak You, Ronald I will see it

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Compute
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Amazon EC2ComputeWindows
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Ronald
asked 2 years ago1.3K views
3 Answers
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Hello,

To get additional information on what maybe causing the issue you can use the DescribeConversionTasks API from the AWS CLI. Additionally, our documentation (see below) lists the most common causes and resolutions for this issue when importing a Windows image to AWS.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-troubleshooting.html#windows-vm-errors

please review the documentation and test the resolutions listed to confirm if it resolves your issue.

Thank you!

AWS
H Singh
answered 2 years ago
  • Ronald
    2 years ago

    The problem is solved by my self. The problem was that EC2Launch V2 is not working for Windows 10. I tried it with EC2Config en EC2Launch V1 and that is working for importing Windows 10 into AWS.

  • Yordi
    a year ago

    Hello, Please Ronald, could you shared how to solved the problem. How use EC2Launchv1 service instead of EC2Launchv2 service when you follow the vm-import document.

  • Ronald
    a year ago

    @Yordi i followed this URL https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/ec2launch-download.html

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Hello Njut, can you share with me exactly what you did to get it working, Im stuck with the same error trying to create Win10 from Vm Workstation 17, thanks in advance, been trying for 5 days now

jps2024
answered a year ago
  • Yordi
    a year ago

    Hello, jps2024, did you solve the problem? ... Im stuck with the same error but creating a old 2003 server ami, for a laboratory purpose

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Same issue here : I confirm that use EC2Config or EC2Launch, instead of EC2Launch v2 work for importing Windows 10 ! Don't know what changed, but it seems that the problem comes from EC2Launch v2 ...

Thanks @Ronald !

Njut
answered a year ago

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