Libguestfs - Sep 2015 - Re: v2v: Mention ovftool in the man page as a way to create OVA files.

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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