On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:30:15AM +0100, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote: > On 11/05/2012 08:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > > >This patch documents both spellings. An alternative would be to > >leave the alternate spellings as hidden aliases (virsh has support > >for that), but still mention them in virsh.pod (see how we did an > >alias for nodedev-dettach, for reference). > In my opinion start, stop, restart is better than the mix before and > semantically more accurate than boot, shutdown, reboot. The latter > uses terms that apply to the operating system inside the domain > rather than the domain (virtual machine) itself. The 'shutdown' and 'reboot' commands use terms that apply to the operating system, because they *are* controlling the operating system, not the virtual machine. They directly result in the guest OS commands 'shutdown' and 'reboot' being invoked. 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