On 07.08.2019 21:41, Andrew Cooper wrote:
--- /dev/null +++ b/docs/glossary.rst @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Glossary +======== + +.. Terms should appear in alphabetical order + +.. glossary:: + + control domain + A :term:`domain`, commonly dom0, with the permission and responsibility + to create and manage other domains on the system. + + domain + A domain is Xen's unit of resource ownership, and generally has at the + minimum some RAM and virtual CPUs. + + The terms :term:`domain` and :term:`guest` are commonly used + interchangeably, but they mean subtly different things. + + A guest is a single virtual machine. + + Consider the case of live migration where, for a period of time, one + guest will be comprised of two domains, while it is in transit. + + domid + The numeric identifier of a running :term:`domain`. It is unique to a + single instance of Xen, used as the identifier in various APIs, and is + typically allocated sequentially from 0. + + guest + See :term:`domain`
I think you want to mention the usual distinction here: Dom0 is, while a domain, commonly not considered a guest. Everything else looks okay to me, but I can't reasonably address your RFC aspect. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
