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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html