On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:18:46AM +0100, Colin Dean wrote: > Hi Daniel, > >> I think perhaps it might be desirable to change the description >> to avoid direct reference to Citrix XenServer / XVP in the docs. >> Instead say that the XVP extension allows for lifecycle control >> of a virtual machine associated with the VNC server. Then refer >> to XVP / XenServer as the primary / reference implementation of >> the extension. >> >> The reason I'm suggesting, is that I'm inclined to try adding >> this VNC extension to QEMU/KVM's VNC server too - this would >> in fact also allow Xen to be rebooted/shutdown/etc without >> talking to XenServer. > > It would be really good if QEMU/KVM's VNC server supported this. > Can we agree on some naming, and then I'll submit a new patch. > > How about using "Xen VM control pseudo-encoding", "Xen VM control > client message" and "Xen VM control server message"?
I think it is fine to have it just named 'XVP - Xen VNC Proxy extension' since that's reflecting its origins, much like the other extensions here. I just think the descriptive text about the wire format should talk in generic functional terms. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com/ -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -o- http://gtk-vnc.sourceforge.net :|
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