An alternate solution to:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-December/msg00035.html
"[PATCH] v2v: -i vmx: Allow ssh URLs to use spaces."
is to classify all URLs processed by libguestfs as either ordinary
URLs or the special non-standard URLs that we use for things like
‘virt-v2v -i vmx’ and ‘guestfish --add’.
For the non-standard URLs, provide a wrapper around xmlParseURI which
turns spaces into %20, and other things.
This patch reveals that there are bugs in the qemu ssh driver (or
libssh2). It cannot handle spaces in the file path or in fact any
non-ASCII character.
Rich.