Re: Create OVF/OVA via ovftool

Brushan, Steve,

Solved this by converting any special characters in the username and password to "URL-Safe" characters,
for example:

' ' should be written as '%20' (blank)

'!' should be written as '%21'

'\' should be written as '%5C'

You can actually convert ALL characters in the username and/or password to "URL-Safe" characters,

just to make sure you have a valid identifier for the ovftool.

Here is a one-liner in Perl:

$string =~ s/(.)/sprintf("%%%X",ord($1))/eg;  # (each char in $string is converted to its Hex-rep., for example: '!' --> '%21')

Gonen