On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 06:13:27PM +0300, Maxim Nestratov wrote: > Hi all, > > You probably already know that our Parallels business devision responsible > for Parallels Cloud Server, which is supported currently in libvirt as a > "parallels" driver, was recently renamed to Odin [1]. > As a part of this change our Parallels Cloud Server product name was also > changed to Virtuozzo [2]. That said, we need to address this change in all > publicly available products and projects and libvirt is not an exception. > Thus, I intend to do the following renaming: > 1. connection uri from "parallels" to "vz", > 2. driver directory and source files from "parallels" to "vz", > 3. internal names (function prefixes, variable and other names) from > "parallels", "prl" to "vz". > > I would like to request for comments about proposed renamings, if they are > affordable? If so, I will send the patch series shortly. The function names and file names are not a problem, since that does not affect external applications at all. Libvirt promises to maintain 100% application compatibility though across releases. So for the URI, we need to keep compatibility with existing syntax. That doesn't mean we can't rename the URI to have a vz:// prefix, but the code would have to still permit the old parallels:// prefix forever. Also, anywhere in the XML which refers to the parallels will have to continue to refer to that. For example <domain type="parallels"> cannot be changed, and virConnectGetType() will have to continue to return "Parallels". I can't remember if there are any other similar places. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list