Hello,
I am trying to use ovftool to export a VM to a Vcenter endpoint. I added --proxy socks://127.0.0.1:1080 and --X:viUseProxy but it does not seem to work:
ovftool --X:logLevel=verbose --acceptAllEulas --name=ovftool-test --datastore=DEV_DT_Storage_Cluster --noSSLVerify=true --diskMode=thick --X:viUseProxy --proxy=socks://127.0.0.1:1080/ c
entos7-base-tmp/centos7-base.vmx vi://<vcenter-address>/TEST_DC/host/TEST_CLUSTER
Opening VMX source: centos7-base-tmp/centos7-base.vmx
Error: Internal error: Failed to connect to server
Completed with errors
Port 1080 in my Mac is listening, ssh tunnel is active and working. I can curl my vcenter over socks proxy.