From: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>
To: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Russell Pavlicek <russell.pavlicek@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up user confusion about different virt modes in Xen
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:29:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5370A289.5000004@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536B642C.2010104@xen.org>
No views then?
In this case, I think it makes sense to start using Brendan's
terminology in wiki docs
Also see http://brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-09/xen-feature-detection.html
Lars
On 08/05/2014 12:02, Lars Kurth wrote:
> Folks,
>
> have a look at
> http://brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-07/what-color-is-your-xen.html
> ... It's a well made case about the confusion our terminology has
> created in user-land. Admittedly, it was a lot worse before we came up
> with the virtualization spectrum. But since then ARM created extra
> complexity.
>
> The article makes some very good points, and a sensible solution, but
> also throws up new problems. Maybe it is time to clean up the
> confusion in terminology, use it consistently and fix our documentation.
>
> But before we consider this, I wanted put the article up for debate
>
> Best Regards
> Lars
>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-08 11:02 Cleaning up user confusion about different virt modes in Xen Lars Kurth
2014-05-12 9:56 ` George Dunlap
2014-05-12 10:29 ` Lars Kurth [this message]
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