On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:37:34PM -0700, Sajjad Lateef wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:17:09PM -0700, Sajjad Lateef wrote: > >> xenserver logs can be in any timezone, as configured by user > >> during install time. Also, the timezone data is not currently > >> recorded in the bugtool report. Therefore, it is currently not > >> possible to easily correlate logs collected on xenserver with > >> logs from other devices on the network. > >> > >> With this change, xen-info capability of the bugtool plugin > >> has been extended to collect the time information in RFC3339 > >> format, which includes the timezone information. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Sajjad Lateef <slat...@nicira.com> > > > > Why is this plugin named xen-info? ?In what way is it specific to Xen? > > The XenServer Supplement Pack DDK documentation specifies 'xen-info' > as the capability name to use when collecting "Hypervisor configuration".
This is a vocabulary problem, then. In the parlance we use commonly at Nicira, a "hypervisor" is any physical machine that has some kind of virtualization software installed. In the parlance used in Linux and Xen, the hypervisor refers to Xen itself, that is, to the lowest-level software veneer over the hardware that hosts domains. There doesn't seem to be a perfect category for the timezone, but xen-info is not a good choice. "system-logs" may be the best choice because in practice we only really care about the timezone when we are reading the system logs. Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
