From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Un-googlable Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:49:24 +0300 Message-ID: <48A7D804.9080604@qumranet.com> References: <877iagpjsk.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: David Abrahams Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:51351 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751605AbYHQHtW (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:49:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877iagpjsk.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Abrahams wrote: > Serious question: has anyone considered changing the name of this > project? Yes. > Finding information about kvm on the web is extremely > frustrating due to the enormous number of pages related to KVM switches > and the heavily overlapping target audience (people who want to run > multiple OSes). I figure a name change would be good for reducing the > developer support burden as well as for your users. > In many ways kvm is a horrible choice. I'm not sure a name change is possible at this stage, though. I've thought of 'slice' (which rhymes nicely with some Qumranet products, and so may not be the first choice for other kvm developers), but that may not be the googliest name either. Perhaps one day the distinction between kvm and linux will disappear, and the hypervisor will be known simply as 'Linux'. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.