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In previous discussion here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-December/thread.html#00027 we preferred to use ssh://... URLs instead of server:/path. However the URL approach had the problem that the user had to replace spaces with %20 in the paths. However since using space gives an error, we can replace spaces with %20 safely in code, thus removing one obstacle from users.

On Friday, 8 December 2017 17:02:30 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > This enhances the existing VMX input support allowing it to be > used over SSH to the ESXi server. > > The original command (for local .vmx files) was: > > $ virt-v2v -i vmx guest.vmx -o local -os /var/tmp > > Adding ‘-it ssh’ and using an SSH remote path gives the new syntax: > > $ virt-v2v \

...179245d6 100644 --- a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod +++ b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod @@ -1438,10 +1438,7 @@ authorized_keys. When using the SSH input transport you must specify a remote C<ssh://...> URI pointing to the VMX file. A typical URI looks like: - ssh://root@esxi.example.com/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/my%20guest/my%20guest.vmx - -Any space must be escaped with C<%20> and other non-ASCII characters -may also need to be URI-escaped. + ssh://root@esxi.example.com/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/my guest/my guest.vmx The username is not required if it is the same as your local username. -- 2.13.2

...v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod +++ b/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod @@ -152,10 +152,7 @@ authorized_keys. When using the SSH input transport you must specify a remote C<ssh://...> URI pointing to the VMX file. A typical URI looks like: - ssh://root@esxi.example.com/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/my%20guest/my%20guest.vmx - -Any space must be escaped with C<%20> and other non-ASCII characters -may also need to be URI-escaped. + ssh://root@esxi.example.com/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/my guest/my guest.vmx The username is not required if it is the same as your local username. -- 2.19.0.rc0

An alternate solution to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-December/msg00035.html "[PATCH] v2v: -i vmx: Allow ssh URLs to use spaces." is to classify all URLs processed by libguestfs as either ordinary URLs or the special non-standard URLs that we use for things like ‘virt-v2v -i vmx’ and ‘guestfish --add’. For the non-standard URLs, provide a wrapper around

Previously posted: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-December/msg00046.html Rich.

Previously posted: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-November/msg00000.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-November/msg00001.html This completes the split and rewrite of the virt-v2v manual to make it much simpler to understand and digest. Rich.

This patch is incomplete, but early feedback would be welcome. Rich.