Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/4] qapi: Convert delvm

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 16.07.2012 18:37, schrieb Eric Blake:
> On 07/16/2012 02:12 AM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>> On 07/12/2012 07:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> On 07/12/2012 10:55 AM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina<phrdina@redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   hmp-commands.hx  |    2 +-
>>>>   hmp.c            |   10 ++++++++++
>>>>   hmp.h            |    1 +
>>>>   qapi-schema.json |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>>>>   qmp-commands.hx  |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   savevm.c         |   21 +++++++++++----------
>>>>   sysemu.h         |    1 -
>>>>   7 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>>> +
>>>> +##
>>>> +# @delvm:
>>> This name is worse than 'loadvm' or 'savevm', in that we are NOT
>>> deleting the entire vm, but a named snapshot stored within the vm.
>>> Would naming it 'delete-vm-snapshot' make more sense (in which case the
>>> others might make more sense as 'save-vm-snapshot' and
>>> 'load-vm-snapshot')?
>>>
>> This naming looks nice. I definitely agree that it could be
>> save-vm-snapshot, load-vm-snapshot, delete-vm-snapshot and
>> query-vm-snapshots.
> 
> On seeing that spelled out, I wonder if the '-vm' is just noise; where
> we could use 'query-snapshots' instead of 'query-vm-snapshots'.  Then
> again, we already have 'blockdev-snapshot-sync', which is an entirely
> different snapshot (just a block device, rather than the entire VM), so
> dropping -vm is probably a bad idea.  Anyone else want to chime in on
> the bikeshed painting discussion of the best QMP name?

Sure. ;-)

If there is a blockdev-snapshot-sync, then the counterparts for the
whole VM shouldn't be called load/save/del-vm-snapshot, but
vm-snapshot-load/save/del. And possibly add a -sync as well.

Kevin