[libvirt] [PATCH 01/10] docs: don't refer to deprecated 'linux' ostype in example

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 04:27:06PM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 03:23:16PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> > On 08/05/2018 03:48 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > Use preferred name: 'xen'.
> > 
> > I'd be fine with this change if the actual code used the preferred name too
> > :-). E.g. config containing
> > 
> >   <type arch='x86_64' machine='xenpv'>xen</type>
> > 
> > will be shown as
> > 
> >   <type arch='x86_64' machine='xenpv'>linux</type>
> > 
> > after virsh define; virsh dumpxml. Also, virsh domxml-from-native will
> > produce the linux variant.
> 
> I was thinking about this and decided to left it intact for backward
> compatibility - so config from `virsh dumpxml` will work with very old
> libvirt version. But if that would be acceptable, I'd very much like to
> change that too. What are opinions about that?

We can't change what we are reporting in the XML here, no matter how
stupid our original choice of terminology was.

Regards,
Daniel
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