Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751638Ab1DCJGW (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 05:06:22 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:62152 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750846Ab1DCJGU (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 05:06:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wwLqeU8ETK4FrTjB6djBevRdKu9hGgZSFAfmcerxH5r+DVXTcTl4VkLjVnKzxApO1y mFYuA9nSLq+0QVb0dVTDdoCAiGumtofy4XdZ+sdvq3rsTWMsxxf8pcKzNFMdSysFStkd bPG8JYXHrlGnLwrIKIeqzc4QLWNAzv9J74MPU= Message-ID: <4D983885.1090704@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:06:13 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Enberg CC: Avi Kivity , 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 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool References: <1301592656.586.15.camel@jaguar> <4D978930.1000909@codemonkey.ws> <20110403062117.GA27121@elte.hu> <4D982EB8.7080001@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1711 Lines: 50 On 04/03/2011 12:53 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > 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 Well, I personally do not care much either. If there a fear we might interfere with some distribution probably we could re-name it "nkvm" (ie from Native KVM). I've googled it and found there is no such name used yet. Hm? -- Cyrill -- 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/