Having trouble with some scripts that call VMware ovftool
internally? Make sure the scripts are URI encoding usernames and
passwords before passing them on to ovftool, otherwise you’re going
to have problems with some very non-descript errors.
20180907/DuckDuckGo ovftool host name resolve failed user name
20180907/https://communities.vmware.com/thread/328498
20180907/DuckDuckGo ovftool Error: cURL error: URL using bad/illegal
format or missing URL
20180907/https://communities.vmware.com/thread/449807
20180907/https://blog.edfine.io/blog/2017/05/02/how-vmwares-ovftool-gave-me-a-headache/