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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:06:13 +0400
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Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com,
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	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, asias.hejun@gmail.com
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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On 04/03/2011 12:53 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 04/03/2011 09:21 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>> * Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>  On 03/31/2011 12:30 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>>>  >  Hi all,
>>>>  >
>>>>  >  We=E2=80=99re proud to announce the native Linux KVM tool!
>>>>
>>>>  Neat!
>>>>
>>>>  As something of a lesson of history, I'd suggest picking a more u=
nique
>>>> name
>>>>  while it's still a prototype :-)
>>>
>>> I disagree, i find it pretty handy and intuitive to run 'kvm ./disk=
=2Eimg'
>>> to
>>> boot KVM and this particular tool name has not been taken yet eithe=
r.
>>
>> Some distributions install qemu-kvm as /usr/bin/kvm.
>>
>>> perf uses a similar concept: the kernel subsystem is generally call=
ed
>>> '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 imma=
ture.
>=20
> Yes, that's really unfortunate. I don't care too much what we call th=
e
> tool but I definitely agree with Ingo that 'kvm' is more discoverable
> to users. Any suggestions?
>=20
>                         Pekka

Well, I personally do not care much either. If there a fear we might in=
terfere
with some distribution probably we could re-name it "nkvm" (ie from Nat=
ive KVM).
I've googled it and found there is no such name used yet. Hm?

--=20
    Cyrill