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  <title>Importing an Instance: Overview of Events</title>
  
  <body>
    <p>The following describes the sequence of events when you import an instance from <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/>.</p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p>A custom image is created from the boot volume of the instance.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>The custom image is exported to an <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> object and is stored using Object Storage in the bucket specified by the user.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>The <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> object is downloaded to the local host. The object is a TAR archive which contains a boot volume of the instance in QCOW2 format and a JSON file containing metadata related to the instance.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>The boot volume of the instance is extracted from the archive and a new VMDK image is created by converting the boot volume into the VMDK format. The VMDK image is registered with <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>A new VM is created using the VMDK image for the cloud instance.</p>
        <p>By default, the new VM is not started after import from <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/>.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>The downloaded TAR archive is deleted after a successful import.</p>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </body>
  
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