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From: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up user confusion about different virt
	modes in Xen
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:29:29 +0100
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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
>
>