Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: add aliases 'boot', 'stop', and 'restart'
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:30:15AM +0100, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
On 11/05/2012 08:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>This patch documents both spellings. An alternative would be to
>leave the alternate spellings as hidden aliases (virsh has support
>for that), but still mention them in virsh.pod (see how we did an
>alias for nodedev-dettach, for reference).
In my opinion start, stop, restart is better than the mix before and
semantically more accurate than boot, shutdown, reboot. The latter
uses terms that apply to the operating system inside the domain
rather than the domain (virtual machine) itself.
The 'shutdown' and 'reboot' commands use terms that apply to the
operating system, because they *are* controlling the operating
system, not the virtual machine. They directly result in the
guest OS commands 'shutdown' and 'reboot' being invoked.
Daniel
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