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Descriptionmxie@redhat.com
2022-11-03 10:10:06 UTC
Created attachment 1921955[details]
vsphere-hierarchy-contains-specical-character-\.png
Description of problem:
Can't connect vmware target by virsh if hierarchy contains some specical character, such as '\', '/', '%'
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-libs-8.9.0-1.el9.x86_64
qemu-img-7.1.0-4.el9.x86_64
How reproducible:
100%
Steps to Reproduce:
Scenario1:
1.1 Add specical characters '\' to hierarchy 'datacenter' on vsphere client, pls refer to screenshot
1.2 Connect vmware target by virsh when hierarchy contains some specical characters, use characters '\', , as examples
# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%5cdata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: internal error: Could not find datacenter specified in '/data\data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/'
Scenario2:
2.1 Add specical characters '/' to hierarchy 'datacenter' on vsphere client, pls refer to screenshot
2.2 Connect vmware target by virsh
# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%2fdata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: internal error: Could not find compute resource specified in '/data/data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/'
Scenario3:
3.1 Add specical characters '%' to hierarchy 'datacenter' on vsphere client, pls refer to screenshot
3.2 Connect vmware target by virsh
# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%25data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: internal error: Could not find datacenter specified in '/data%data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/'
Actual results:
As above description
Expected results:
Can connect vmware target by virsh if hierarchy contains specical characters
Additional info:
Can connect vmware target by virsh if hierarchy contains specical characters, such as 'space', '@', '-', ':'
1.When specical characters is space
# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%20data/cluster%20cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh #
2.When specical characters is '@'
# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%40data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh #
3.When specical characters is '-'
# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%2ddata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh #
4.When specical characters is ':'
# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%3adata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh #
Comment 1Jaroslav Suchanek
2022-11-03 13:36:36 UTC
This has been reported in bug 1373863, which was later closed as wontfix.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1373863 ***
(In reply to Laszlo Ersek from comment #2)
> Furthermore, at the virt-v2v level, we have documentation that *seems*
> related:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1938954
> https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v/commit/f8c564333057
Yes, can connect vmware target by virsh if apercent sign (%) is encoded as %25,
1.# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%255cdata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh #
2.# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%2525data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh #
3.# virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%252fdata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1
Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh #
Created attachment 1921955 [details] vsphere-hierarchy-contains-specical-character-\.png Description of problem: Can't connect vmware target by virsh if hierarchy contains some specical character, such as '\', '/', '%' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-libs-8.9.0-1.el9.x86_64 qemu-img-7.1.0-4.el9.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: Scenario1: 1.1 Add specical characters '\' to hierarchy 'datacenter' on vsphere client, pls refer to screenshot 1.2 Connect vmware target by virsh when hierarchy contains some specical characters, use characters '\', , as examples # virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%5cdata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1 Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: internal error: Could not find datacenter specified in '/data\data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/' Scenario2: 2.1 Add specical characters '/' to hierarchy 'datacenter' on vsphere client, pls refer to screenshot 2.2 Connect vmware target by virsh # virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%2fdata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1 Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: internal error: Could not find compute resource specified in '/data/data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/' Scenario3: 3.1 Add specical characters '%' to hierarchy 'datacenter' on vsphere client, pls refer to screenshot 3.2 Connect vmware target by virsh # virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%25data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1 Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: internal error: Could not find datacenter specified in '/data%data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/' Actual results: As above description Expected results: Can connect vmware target by virsh if hierarchy contains specical characters Additional info: Can connect vmware target by virsh if hierarchy contains specical characters, such as 'space', '@', '-', ':' 1.When specical characters is space # virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%20data/cluster%20cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1 Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141: Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh # 2.When specical characters is '@' # virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%40data/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1 Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141: Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh # 3.When specical characters is '-' # virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%2ddata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1 Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141: Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh # 4.When specical characters is ':' # virsh -c vpx://root.73.141/data%3adata/cluster/hp-dl360eg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/?no_verify=1 Enter root's password for 10.73.73.141: Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh #