Region of Image |
Yes |
This parameter is automatically set to the current region. To change the region, close
the Import Image dialog box and select another region in the upper-left corner of
the top navigation bar. Then, you can click Import Image to open the Import Image dialog box and continue to configure other parameters.
|
OSS Object Address |
Yes |
Paste the URL of the image object copied from the OSS console. For more information
about how to obtain an object URL, see Download objects.
|
Image Name |
Yes |
Enter a name for the custom image. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length,
and can contain letters, digits, periods (.), underscores (_), colons (:), and hyphens
(-). It must start with a letter.
|
Operating System/Platform |
Yes |
- Operating System:
Select the operating system of your image. Valid values: Windows and Linux.
If you want to import a non-standard platform image, select Linux.
- Platform:
The option depends on the Operating System value that you selected. Select a system
platform based on the image to be imported.
- Windows: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server
2016, and Windows Server 2019.
- Linux: CentOS, SUSE, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, CoreOS, Aliyun, Red Hat, Customized
Linux, and Others Linux. (Submit a ticket to confirm whether the selected edition is supported.)
- If your image operating system is a custom edition based on the Linux kernel, Submit a ticket.
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System Disk Size (GiB) |
No |
Specify the system disk size. Unit: GiB. Valid values: 5 to 500. |
System Architecture |
Yes |
Select x86_64 for 64-bit operating systems or i386 for 32-bit operating systems.
|
Image Format |
No |
Valid values: Automatic Detection, RAW, QCOW2 and VHD.
- If you do not know the image format, you can select Automatic Detection to allow the
system to detect and set the image format.
- If you want to select an image format, we recommend that you select the QCOW2 or VHD
format, which has a smaller transmission footprint.
|
License Type |
No |
Select a license type to activate the source operating system after the image is imported.
Default value: Auto. Valid values:
- BYOL: the license provided by the source operating system. When this value is selected,
make sure that your license key can be used in Alibaba Cloud.
- Aliyun: the license allocated by Alibaba Cloud. When this value is selected, a license allocated
by Alibaba Cloud is applied based on the Platform value that you selected.
- Auto: specifies that Alibaba Cloud automatically detects the source operating system and
allocates a license. When this value is selected, the system automatically checks
whether a license allocated by Alibaba Cloud exists for your specified system platform
and then performs the following actions:
- If a license allocated by Alibaba Cloud exists for the specified system platform,
the system allocates the license to the imported image.
- If no license allocated by Alibaba Cloud exists for the specified system platform,
the system switches the license type to BYOL.
|
Image Description |
No |
Enter a description for the custom image. |
Add Data Disk Image |
No |
Select this option if you want to import an image that contains data of data disks.
Supported data disk capacity ranges from 5 GiB to 1,000 GiB.
|
Resource Group |
No |
Specify a resource group for the custom image for easy management. |
Tag |
No |
Bind tags to images to classify the images for easy search and batch operations. |