From 1da9cd13afd9caf5bcf7656f495188949a493dc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Veillard Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:18:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * virsh.1: fixed some typo and unclear language pointed out by Noriko Mizumoto Daniel --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ virsh.1 | 14 +++++++------- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 5b4891a3f2..971944392d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Wed Oct 11 16:23:58 CEST 2006 Daniel Veillard + + * virsh.1: fixed some typo and unclear language pointed out by + Noriko Mizumoto + Mon Oct 9 09:34:42 EDT 2006 Daniel P. Berrange * src/xml.c, src/xend_internal.c: Added support for a diff --git a/virsh.1 b/virsh.1 index 17e611c55b..3bb2db24d7 100644 --- a/virsh.1 +++ b/virsh.1 @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ virsh [args] .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" The \fBvirsh\fR program is the main interface for managing virsh guest domains. The program can be used to create, suspend, resume, save, and shutdown -domains. It can also be used to list current domains. Libvirt is a C toolkit to interract with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software available under the \s-1GNU\s0 Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of Operating Systems concurently on a single hardware system where the basic resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing long term stable C \s-1API\s0 initially for the Xen paravirtualization but should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed. +domains. It can also be used to list current domains. Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software available under the \s-1GNU\s0 Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing long term stable C \s-1API\s0 initially for the Xen paravirtualization but should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed. .PP The basic structure of every virsh command is almost always: .PP @@ -152,12 +152,12 @@ is the numeric domain id, or the domain name (which will be internally translated to domain id), and \fI\s-1OPTIONS\s0\fR are sub command specific options. There are a few exceptions to this rule in the cases where the sub command in question acts on all domains, the entire machine, -or directly on the xen hypervisor. Those exceptions will be clear for +or directly on the xen hypervisor. Those exceptions will be explained for each of those sub commands. .SH "NOTES" .IX Header "NOTES" -All \fBvirsh\fR opperations rely upon the libvirt library. -For any virsh commands to run xend/qemu, or what ever virtual library that libvirt suports. For this reason you should start xend/qemu as a service when your system first boots using xen/qemu. +All \fBvirsh\fR operations rely upon the libvirt library. +So any virsh commands may require to run xend or qemu (or which ever virtualization layer that libvirt will use). For this reason you should start xend or qemu as a service when your system first boots. .PP Most \fBvirsh\fR commands require root privledges to run due to the communications channels used to talk to the hypervisor. Running as @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Ouput the domain informations as an \s-1XML\s0 dump to stdout, this format can b .IP "\fBdestroy\fR \fIdomain-name, id or uuid\fR" 4 .IX Item "destroy domain-name, id or uuid" Immediately terminate the domain domain\-id. This doesn't give the domain -\&\s-1OS\s0 any chance to react, and it the equivalent of ripping the power +\&\s-1OS\s0 any chance to react, and it is the equivalent of ripping the power cord out on a physical machine. In most cases you will want to use the \fBshutdown\fR command instead. .IP "\fBdomid\fR \fIdomain-name\fR" 4 @@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ quit this interactive terminal .IX Item "reboot domain-name, id or uuid" Reboot a domain. This acts just as if the domain had the \fBreboot\fR command run from the console. The command returns as soon as it has -executed the reboot action, which may be significantly before the -domain actually reboots. +started the reboot action, but it may take significantly longuer before +the domain actually reboots. .Sp For xen vm the behavior of what happens to a domain when it reboots is set by the \&\fIon_reboot\fR parameter of the xmdomain.cfg file when the domain was -- GitLab