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List:       libguestfs
Subject:    Re: [Libguestfs] [libguestfs] v2v: Mention ovftool in the man page as a way to create OVA files.
From:       "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones () redhat ! com>
Date:       2015-09-25 19:19:13
Message-ID: 20150925191913.GI1908 () redhat ! com
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 08:23:04AM -0700, angystardust wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> i'm glad to see the suggestion i gave to the RH support in the
> official documentation! :smile:
> 
> You can also point to a vCenter by using this syntax:
> 
> `ovftool  --noSSLVerify \
> vi://[USER]:[PASSWORD]@[VCENTER-HOST]/[DATACENTER-NAME]/vm/[VM-NAME] \
> /path/to/file.ova` 
> For an Active Directory-aware authentication, you have to express the @ character \
> in the form of its ascii hex-code (that's to say %5C): `ovftool  --noSSLVerify \
> vi://[DOMAIN]%5C[USER]:[PASSWORD]@[VCENTER-HOST]/[DATACENTER-NAME]/vm/[VM-NAME] \
> /path/to/file.ova` 
> For ex.:
> `ovftool  --noSSLVerify \
> vi://EXAMPLE%5Cuser:password@vcenter.example.local/DATACENTER/vm/V2V-RHEL5 \
> /mnt/export/V2V-RHEL5.ova` 
> Hope this helps other people to save time instead of spending it on
> Google.  Thanks for your hard work and keep on rockin'.

Thanks - I will update the documentation further.

Rich.

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