On 23/11/2017 14:23, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 02:08:42PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 23/11/2017 13:59, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>>> I'm not sure I like that. For me, qemu-kvm comes with the connotation >>>> of "there used to be a fork of qemu for kvm usage, and we stuck with >>>> the name because it is likely scattered through scripts". >>> >>> Yes, qemu-kvm is a historical artifact in Fedora solely because of the >>> previous fork. >> >> In Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux and NixOS at least. AFAICS only >> Gentoo doesn't have it. >> >> Looks like something that upstream should provide, let's not fight >> windmills. > > I thought that Ubuntu / Debian had /usr/bin/kvm originally instead of > qemu-kvm
Yeah, though the package is named qemu-kvm (confusing...). Still the point stands that if there is distro confusion, we should consider looking at what the de facto standards are, and provide it ourselves in a way that makes sense (and /usr/bin/kvm doesn't). Paolo
