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When you export your virtual machine (VM) from its virtualization environment, that process creates a set of one or more disk container files that act as snapshots of your VM’s environment, settings, and data. The Amazon EC2 API ImportImage action uses those files to import your VM and create an AMI. To import using the CLI command, see import-image

You can reference the task ID from the VM import to pull in the AMI that the import created as the base image for your Image Builder recipe.

put/ImportVmImage

Request body

namestring required

The name of the base image that is created by the import process.

semanticVersionstring required
<p>The semantic version to attach to the base image that was created during the import process. This version follows the semantic version syntax.</p> <note> <p>The semantic version has four nodes: &lt;major&gt;.&lt;minor&gt;.&lt;patch&gt;/&lt;build&gt;. You can assign values for the first three, and can filter on all of them.</p> <p> <b>Assignment:</b> For the first three nodes you can assign any positive integer value, including zero, with an upper limit of 2^30-1, or 1073741823 for each node. Image Builder automatically assigns the build number to the fourth node.</p> <p> <b>Patterns:</b> You can use any numeric pattern that adheres to the assignment requirements for the nodes that you can assign. For example, you might choose a software version pattern, such as 1.0.0, or a date, such as 2021.01.01.</p> </note>
descriptionstring

The description for the base image that is created by the import process.

platform'Windows' | 'Linux' required

The operating system platform for the imported VM.

osVersionstring

The operating system version for the imported VM.

vmImportTaskIdstring required

The <code>importTaskId</code> (API) or <code>ImportTaskId</code> (CLI) from the Amazon EC2 VM import process. Image Builder retrieves information from the import process to pull in the AMI that is created from the VM source as the base image for your recipe.

tagsobject

Tags that are attached to the import resources.

clientTokenstring required

Unique, case-sensitive identifier you provide to ensure idempotency of the request. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Run_Instance_Idempotency.html">Ensuring idempotency</a> in the <i>Amazon EC2 API Reference</i>.

Response

Success

requestIdstring

The request ID that uniquely identifies this request.

imageArnstring

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the AMI that was created during the VM import process. This AMI is used as the base image for the recipe that imported the VM.

clientTokenstring

The idempotency token that was used for this request.