On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 09:41:04PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > This changes all occurrences of the words 'domain' and 'guest' in virsh > output to 'virtual machine', plus some occurrences in comments, plus > updates the man page and 'make check' tests to match. > > Some trivial typos and line lengths were fixed on the way through too. > --- > Until now we use the words 'virtual machine', 'guest' and 'domain' interchangeably > in our discussions and documentation. 'virtual machine' seems to be the most > common (and the standard term in our industry), whereas 'guest' is less common, > and 'domain' seems to be a implementation legacy from Xen. Using 'virtual machine' > here is easier on newbies, gives us a (useful) shorter abbreviation of 'vm', and > brings us more into line with industry standards. I don't think virtual machine is suitable for virsh, because that implies full machine virtualization. libvirt/virsh can also be used for containers / OS virtualization. Domain/Guest are the only ones that really cover both possible usages. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list