Generally available: Migrate to Virtual Machines lets you import a machine image from a virtual appliance

## Feature **Generally available:** Migrate to Virtual Machines lets you [import a machine image from a virtual appliance](https://cloud.google.com/migrate/virtual-machines/docs/5.0/migrate/machine-image-import). You can use machine images to store the configuration, metadata, permissions, and data from one or more disks for a virtual machine (VM) instance running on Compute Engine.