[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: change output text words 'domain' and 'guest' to 'virtual machine'

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:44:57PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> <snip>
> > I don't think virtual machine is suitable for virsh, because that implies
> > full machine virtualization. libvirt/virsh can also be used for containers
> > / OS virtualization. Domain/Guest are the only ones that really cover both
> > possible usages.
> 
> From the technical point of view, yeah.  But, terminology for virtualisation seems
> to have moved on to such a point that "Virtual Machine" is now a generic term
> for any kind of virtualisation tech.  The fact that it's "not a full machine" virtualisation
> is largely moot.  The different ways we support are just "different approaches" to
> virtual machines (sic).

I don't really agree with this. People using OpenVZ or LXC are simply not
refering to their guests as virtual machines because it makes no sense
as a term in this context.

> It's kind of like the conversation the other day about virtual switches.  There's more
> than one type around the place (Linux bridging, the openvswitch guys, etc).  But,
> for the purpose of writing and communicating about them, we can just look at them
> as all being types of "virtual switches", albeit with different approaches and
> different properties.
>
> Same thing here.  "Virtual Machine" is just the generic term now, and is very
> widely understood.

No, not really. This is a completely different scenario. You haven't got two 
fundamentally different concepts here, this is just a Xen vs KVM vs VMWare
scenario where you've just got different impls of the same concept.

> So, I still reckon we should go ahead with this. :)

I don't agree.

Regards,
Daniel
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