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. Virtual machine is definitely easier than what we've used in the past. Although it sounds a bit wordy at first, "management virtual machine" does make sense and has a good meaning.
So as soon as my schedule permits, I will add these terms to the style guide.
Marcus, in the future, the project would appreciate it if you let us know earlier in the process so we could be more involved in the discussion.
Rebecca,
I know that I have come into this conversation a little late but I felt it needed discussion. I noticed throughout existing suse/novell documentation, with regard to virtual technology, that there seems to be a lack of definition with regards to the the types of VMMs. This is a very important issue to the end-user due to the inherent impact of the handling of resources within the VMM. e.g. type I and type II
Type I: standalone, for example mainframes Type II: hosted, for example VMWare, Xen
Thanks. Thomas R. Jones