From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932370AbWETTFm (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 15:05:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932371AbWETTFm (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 15:05:42 -0400 Received: from jacks.isp2dial.com ([64.142.120.55]:16132 "EHLO jacks.isp2dial.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932370AbWETTFl (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 15:05:41 -0400 From: John Kelly To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: vmi vs. xen Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 15:05:40 -0400 Message-ID: <200605201905.k4KJ5dsg015933@isp2dial.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hard2Crack: 0.001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org According to: http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6061019.html?part=rss&tag=6061019&subj=news > Part of the problem has stemmed from branding issues, > Pratt said. "They object to putting patches into Linux > having the 'Xen' prefix on all the function names. > We're miffed about it being called VMI, since we did > the hard work of interfaces and defining the patches," vzx = VirtualiZation Xen vzx = Vmware virtualiZation linuX vzx = VirtualiZation eXternal So 'vzx' can represent Xen, VMware, or any generic 'eXternal' VM. And for the openvz/vserver folks: vzi = VirtualiZation Internal (or In-kernel) Grepping 2.6.16 for case-insensitive 'vzi' finds 0 matches. Grepping 2.6.16 for case-insensitive 'vzx' finds 12 matches to 'movzx' instruction in ./arch/i386/crypto/aes-i586-asm.S.