Hi Kashyap, I remember we were talking about this on IRC and I know it could make confusion and first time I've been using the destroy command of virsh I remember I've been asking somebody the same thing. The issue is that this command exists in virsh/libvirt for a really long and I don't know whether it could be easy to change it. I guess we should introduce a new command 'poweroff' with backwards compatibility to 'destroy' but changing destroy functionality is not the right thing. Thanks, Michal On 06/14/2011 12:31 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
(please cc me in response as I have not subscribed to this list)
Hi all,
A minor nitpick:
Every-time I suggest someone to do a force shut-down a guest using 'virsh destroy foo' , the very first question I get is -- does it _destroy_ my data?
This causes confusion to the inexperienced user and makes him/her suspect that the data/disk could be destroyed while running 'virsh destroy foo'
Maybe replacing it to a milder name like 'poweroff' or something might help?
Thanks, Kashyap Chamarthy
-- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
-- Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>, RHCE Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat