Hi Richard, i'm glad to see the suggestion i gave to the RH support in the official documentation! :smile: You can also point to a vCenter by using this syntax: `ovftool --noSSLVerify vi://[USER]:[PASSWORD]@[VCENTER-HOST]/[DATACENTER-NAME]/vm/[VM-NAME] /path/to/file.ova` For an Active Directory-aware authentication, you have to express the @ character in the form of its ascii hex-code (that's to say %5C): `ovftool --noSSLVerify vi://[DOMAIN]%5C[USER]:[PASSWORD]@[VCENTER-HOST]/[DATACENTER-NAME]/vm/[VM-NAME] /path/to/file.ova` For ex.: `ovftool --noSSLVerify vi://EXAMPLE%5Cuser:password@vcenter.example.local/DATACENTER/vm/V2V-RHEL5 /mnt/export/V2V-RHEL5.ova` Hope this helps other people to save time instead of spending it on Google. Thanks for your hard work and keep on rockin'.