Me and my colleague have a two independent google accounts. If possible, I want to migrate one of my VM instance into his account, where he can start using it with the disk that contains the applications and operating system needed to start the VM that I want to migrate.
On my account, I have created a custom image and afterwards I give an Owner permission to my college's account using IAM & Admin.
Then my college(from different google account) created an Instance by using the custom image under My First Project section. But when he connected into created instance, its home directory was empty even its created from the custom image that I created from my disk.
Boot Disk => Custom Images => Select my shared Project => Selected the Custom Image that is created on my shared Project => Create
I observe that even I was able to create a image from different project, its contents was not migrated.
I was wondering is it possible to migrate a google VM instance from one account to another? If yes, how can I do it?
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I would suggest creating a snapshot of your VM's boot disk. Then create an image from that snapshot and share it with your colleague.
As John Hanley pointed out in the comments to your question, you might be looking in the wrong place! Google will create separate user home directories based on the username.