Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:53:34 +0300 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi,
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/03/2011 09:21 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> * Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws> 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?
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