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

[Joel Wirāmu Pauling]

This is actually a source of great frustration as many vendors ship
the machine type with custom strings. Engineers then do virsh
dumpxml's from one sys and wonder why it doesn't work on another
without realizing say ubuntu has this set to a machine type different
to rhel ( but actually are basically just 'normal' pc type
definitions).

-Joel

On 6 September 2018 at 10:40, Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com> wrote:
> On 08/31/2018 07:50 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 03:29:41PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Ok. What about other patches (not really depending on this one)?
>
>
> Sorry for the delay reviewing the remaining patches, but I think you are
> accustomed to my delays :-). I hope to get to them in the next days.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
>
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