Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752115Ab1DCIxg (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 04:53:36 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:49622 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751665Ab1DCIxf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 04:53:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=l8DgDtTPzQ6ooOBMNRMTmMkhTNkmDopmOzmCjaaVGmyiiH0Y74wOYhE49daB6W5s6Q NIsWWCe8n14BWEbdOTM9tBhWbr8wD70w/5WgqxNHE5NQpWNE2UbKtxL7O6VDdz87Yv5l /qkSMdUcfqYND3XY20UolvLIZbIVALf8EAIoM= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4D982EB8.7080001@redhat.com> References: <1301592656.586.15.camel@jaguar> <4D978930.1000909@codemonkey.ws> <20110403062117.GA27121@elte.hu> <4D982EB8.7080001@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:53:34 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: PfTnLCTseBTd4MVVbNs3QblZ3DU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool From: Pekka Enberg To: Avi Kivity Cc: Ingo Molnar , Anthony Liguori , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1390 Lines: 42 Hi, On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 04/03/2011 09:21 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> * Anthony Liguori ?wrote: >> >> > ?On 03/31/2011 12:30 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> > ?> ?Hi all, >> > ?> >> > ?> ?We?re proud to announce the native Linux KVM tool! >> > >> > ?Neat! >> > >> > ?As something of a lesson of history, I'd suggest picking a more unique >> > name >> > ?while it's still a prototype :-) >> >> I disagree, i find it pretty handy and intuitive to run 'kvm ./disk.img' >> to >> boot KVM and this particular tool name has not been taken yet either. > > Some distributions install qemu-kvm as /usr/bin/kvm. > >> perf uses a similar concept: the kernel subsystem is generally called >> 'perf', >> and the (Linux specific) user-space tool is called 'perf' as well. It >> makes >> quite a bit of sense. > > Well, this is bound to cause confusion as the tool is yet quite immature. Yes, that's really unfortunate. I don't care too much what we call the tool but I definitely agree with Ingo that 'kvm' is more discoverable to users. Any suggestions? Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/