Re: Un-googlable

Avi Kivity
2008-08-17T07:49:22Z

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'.

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