Hi Kashyap, I remember we were talking about this on IRC and I know it could make confusion and first time I've been using the destroy command of virsh I remember I've been asking somebody the same thing. The issue is that this command exists in virsh/libvirt for a really long and I don't know whether it could be easy to change it. I guess we should introduce a new command 'poweroff' with backwards compatibility to 'destroy' but changing destroy functionality is not the right thing. Thanks, Michal On 06/14/2011 12:31 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > (please cc me in response as I have not subscribed to this list) > > Hi all, > > A minor nitpick: > > Every-time I suggest someone to do a force shut-down a guest using 'virsh destroy foo' , > the very first question I get is -- does it _destroy_ my data? > > This causes confusion to the inexperienced user and makes him/her suspect that the > data/disk could be destroyed while running 'virsh destroy foo' > > Maybe replacing it to a milder name like 'poweroff' or something might help? > > Thanks, > Kashyap Chamarthy > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list -- Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>, RHCE Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list