In previous discussion here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-December/thread.html#00027
we preferred to use ssh://... URLs instead of server:/path. However
the URL approach had the problem that the user had to replace spaces
with %20 in the paths.
However since using space gives an error, we can replace spaces with
%20 safely in code, thus removing one obstacle from users.
Rich.