Generally available: Migrate to Virtual Machines lets you import a virtual disk image to a Compute Engine image

## Feature **Generally available:** Migrate to Virtual Machines lets you [import a virtual disk image to a Compute Engine image](https://cloud.google.com/migrate/virtual-machines/docs/5.0/migrate/image%5Fimport). If you have virtual disk images with software and configurations that you need, you can save time by importing these virtual disk images to [Compute Engine images](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images), and use this image to create virtual machine instances or persistent disks.