Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On 04/03/2011 12:53 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 04/03/2011 09:21 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>> * Anthony Liguori<anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>  On 03/31/2011 12:30 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>>>  >  Hi all,
>>>>  >
>>>>  >  Weâre 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
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