[Libvir] suspend/resume == pause/unpause?

[Anthony Liguori]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:17:06AM -0800, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
>   
>> 'xm' uses pause/unpause. libvirt uses suspend/resume. It seems they
>> are the same. IMHO this should be made explicit in the documentation
>> (I'm looking at the python help for libvirt).
>>     
>
>   Take any OS book, you will see suspend/resume defined. Ask a laptop
> user what it means to suspend and resume, it's understood.
I completely agree that the verbage in xm is bad here.

It makes me wonder if the appropriate terms for pause/unpause and 
save/restore is really suspend/hibernate.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
>  My goal is
> not to copy Xen API and make it LGPL, my goal is to make a simpler API
> that more people can use. And IMHO the description are quite precise,
> I expect only a small fraction of the potential libxvirt users to
> actually have gone though Xen API 'descriptions'.
>
>   http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainSuspend
>   "Suspends an active domain, the process is frozen without further
>    access to CPU resources and I/O but the memory used by the domain
>    at the hypervisor level will stay allocated. Use virDomainResume()
>    to reactivate the domain."
>     
> If you think it's ambiguous I take documentation patches !
>
> Daniel
>
>