Once converted, use the ossutil64 to upload the image to your previously created bucket.

If you click on the file, you can get its public URL in the preview. Copy the file URL as we will feed it into the image importer,

Go back to the Elastic Compute Service (ECS), select Image on the menu on the left and start the import through the “Import Image” functionality. In the OSS Object Address, insert the URL as copied before. Use Linux as operating system and RedHat as system platform. Mind to specify RAW as image format.


The Alicloud image service will (slowly) import the image. If everything is successful, you should see an image similar to the one below:

You can start a virtual machine with your newly created image and register your RedHat subscription with subscription-manager 🙂