Re: [opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-06 Thread Thomas R. Jones
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 08:45 +0200, Rebecca Walter wrote: > While I respect the concerns expressed by the community so far, I don't think > these outweigh the advantages seen by our experts. I don't think "virtual > host server" is more complicated than the other server terms we use > regularly.

Re: [opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-05 Thread Rebecca Walter
While I respect the concerns expressed by the community so far, I don't think these outweigh the advantages seen by our experts. I don't think "virtual host server" is more complicated than the other server terms we use regularly. Virtual machine is definitely easier than what we've used in th

Re: [opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-02 Thread jdd
Alexey Eremenko wrote: anything, let's as wild as Playstation, for emulation case - usually this would be x86 PC) usually, not necessarily, gamebox emulators are prosent for age here :-) good guess to don't forget them :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -

Re: [opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-02 Thread Alexey Eremenko
According to my basic terminology: *Host Your real computer, on which the emulator/virtualizer software runs. Host means both your real hardware and the operating system that controls that hardware. In some cases there can be only hardware without operating system, like VMware ESX. The term

Re: [opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-01 Thread jdd
Rebecca Walter wrote: Virtual machine 1, virtual machine 2 two different (virtualized) computers guest: Linux, XP, W98, dos, freebsd... there wouldn't be "guest" used here, if I have understood properly. It would be a virtual machine running whatever OS. I think the "guest" concept is impo

Re: [opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-01 Thread Rebecca Walter
> > "virtual machine"--Not domain or guest. > > we shall make a difference between the virtual machine, that is the > computer, and the guest, that is the operating system intalled on it > (at least I see this on VMWare) > > Host: my physical computer virtual machine server would be this one. >

Re: [opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-01 Thread jdd
Rebecca Walter wrote: (ok for me) "virtual machine"--Not domain or guest. we shall make a difference between the virtual machine, that is the computer, and the guest, that is the operating system intalled on it (at least I see this on VMWare) Host: my physical computer Virtual machine 1,

Re: [opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-01 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Hi Rebecca ! On 6/1/07, Rebecca Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have a request from management to standardize our terminology for virtualization technology. They, with input from in-house experts, propose the following terminology. Does anyone know of any reason these terms should not be

[opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Virtualization Terminology

2007-06-01 Thread Rebecca Walter
We have a request from management to standardize our terminology for virtualization technology. They, with input from in-house experts, propose the following terminology. Does anyone know of any reason these terms should not become the standard? I need feedback by the end of the day on 4 June