Create VT XML at startup to speed up GET_VTS #908
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What
At startup ospd-openvas stores a VT XML string for each VT. When gvmd calls GET_VTS, then ospd-openvas replies with the premade strings.
Why
With recent PRs gvmd takes about 2m30s to do a rebuild. 1m30s of that is waiting for ospd-openvas to send the VTs. With this change gvmd only waits 1s.
References
Recent gvmd PRs: greenbone/gvmd/pull/1959, greenbone/gvmd/pull/1988
GEA-49