"Smarter" use of file copies, conversion to save time

[ghost]

Per discussion with @glennmatthews opening this to track changes around the following

1. Today with an existing OVF (not OVA) COT will copy the disk files to a temp directory even if it is for an edit-product operation, and the input/output directories are the same. There are cases when this is undesirable because the potential is there for the edit-product operation to be lengthy. It may also sometimes be undesirable to copy vmdk's to a tmp dir when converting OVF to OVA.
2. It appears that COT will convert an existing stream optimized vmdk to raw, then back again. @glennmatthews replied that this was not the case and/or not intended. Need to just ensure this is happening, and correct if it is not.

[ghost]

I will get @glennmatthews the data point he needs for point 2

[glennmatthews]

@Quol Can you give my feature/reduce_file_copies branch a try and see how well it works for you?

[ghost]

It works. Thumbs up.

On Aug 5, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Glenn Matthews [email protected] wrote:

@Quol Can you give my feature/reduce_file_copies branch a try and see how well it works for you?

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