A system is capable of managing virtual machines in a source service for hosting one or more source virtual machines and a destination service for hosting one or more destination virtual machines, and memory for storing program code and at least one processing core capable of executing the program code to cause generating, by the source service, a temporary virtual machine in the source service, attaching, by the source service, at least one storage drive of at least one source virtual machine, to the temporary virtual machine, preparing, by the temporary virtual machine, a disk image of the attached at least one storage drive in a format supported by the destination service, and writing, by the temporary virtual machine, the disk image to a storage drive of the destination virtual machine.