When you run a utility application that takes arguments specifying names for virtual machines, host systems, and so on, you must supply the exact name on the command line. Regular expressions are not accepted.
When you run a utility application, there are some restrictions on special characters.
- In virtual machine names, you must represent the character forward slash (/) as
%2f, backward slash (\) as%5c, and percent (%) as%25when they appear in virtual machine names. - On UNIX-like command lines, surround names that contain special characters with single-quotes, and use percent (%) as the escape character.
For example, to search for the virtual machine San Jose, run the following command.
perl vminfo.pl --username Administrator --password 'secret' --server myserver --vmname 'San Jose'
To search for the virtual machine San-Jose/5, run the following command.
perl vminfo.pl --username Administrator --password 'secret' --server myserver --vmname 'San-Jose%2f5'
