On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:06:29PM +1000, dave bl wrote: Certainly I've long wanted better aliases for virsh commands. This should be discussed on libvir-list. I suggest sending patches there instead of here. There was some discussion about 4-8 months ago about this subject. It might be a good idea to search the archives and familiarize yourself with that first. We can't remove the existing commands, and we should be careful about aliases which might clash with future commands. Something to think about ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top