Supported operating systems

Migrate to Virtual Machines supports migrating VMs running the operating systems shown in the following table.

Note: Some Compute Engine features require agents and services running on the VM. These agents and services are installed automatically during the migration. However, certain security features such as SELinux, anti-viruses, and firewalls, may interfere with these services and prevent certain features from functioning. In order to make sure that the guest environment functions properly, follow the steps in Loaded services for the guest environment and if needed, the Troubleshooting steps for Compute Engine.

Note: Migrate to Virtual Machines supports the migration of 64-bit x86 VMs for Linux (all flavours) and Windows Server operating systems only.

OS	Version	VMware	AWS	Default license	License option	Comments
CentOS	6.0 - 6.7	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
	6.8 - 6.10	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	7.0 - 7.9	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	8.0 - 8.2	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	8.3 - 8.5	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
Debian	8.0 - 8.11	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
	9.0 - 9.13	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
	10.0 - 10.10	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
	11.0	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
Oracle Linux	6.0 - 6.7	Yes	No	N/A	N/A	Requires kernel-uek version of at least 4.1.12-37.4.1
	6.8 - 6.10	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	7.0 - 7.1	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
	7.2 - 7.9	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	8.0 - 8.4	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
RHEL	6.0 - 6.4	Yes	No	BYOL	PAYG
	6.5 - 6.10	Yes	Yes	BYOL for VMWare, PAYG for AWS	PAYG
	7.0 - 7.9	Yes	Yes	BYOL for VMWare, PAYG for AWS	PAYG
	8.0 - 8.5	Yes	Yes	BYOL for VMWare, PAYG for AWS	PAYG
SLES	11 SP3-SP4	Yes	No	BYOL	BYOL
	12 SP2-SP5	Yes	Yes	BYOL for VMWare, PAYG for AWS	PAYG
	15	Yes	Yes	BYOL for VMWare, PAYG for AWS	PAYG
	15 SP1-SP3	Yes	Yes	BYOL for VMWare, PAYG for AWS	PAYG
Ubuntu	14.04.0 - 14.04.6	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	16.04.0 - 16.04.7	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	18.04.0 - 18.04.6	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	20.04.0 - 20.04.03	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	20.10	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	21.04	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
	22.04	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
Windows Server	2008 R2 SP1	Yes	Yes	PAYG	BYOL
	2012	Yes	Yes	PAYG	BYOL
	2012 R2	Yes	Yes	PAYG	BYOL
	2016	Yes	Yes	PAYG	BYOL
	2019	Yes	Yes	PAYG	BYOL
	2022	Yes	Yes	PAYG	BYOL
Windows Client	7 SP1 (x86 and x64)	Yes	No	BYOL	N/A
	8 (x86 and x64)	Yes	No	BYOL	N/A
	8.1 (x86 and x64)	Yes	No	BYOL	N/A
	10 (x86 and x64)	Yes	No	BYOL	N/A	BitLocker Drive Encryption not supported

Licensing

Compute Engine supports pay as you go (PAYG) licenses and bring your own licenses (BYOL). The default license type for migrated VMs is assigned by Migrate to Virtual Machines based on the migrated OS. See the table above for details.

If the operating system supports multiple license types, you can change the license type when you configure the target Compute Engine instance. See Configuring the target for a migrated VM for more information.

Note: Some operating system types, such as CentOS and Debian, do not support a license. Others, such as Windows Client, only support one type of license.

Support for encrypted disks

Migrate to Virtual Machines does not support software encrypted disks because they cannot be read without a key. Specifically, Windows 10 and later systems can use BitLocker Drive Encryption. Systems on which the boot drive is encrypted using BitLocker are not supported by Migrate to Virtual Machines.