Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

[Pekka Enberg]

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,
>> >  >
>> >  >  We’re 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
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