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Does ovftool support a socks proxy?

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.

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