Bug 857327 - "shutdown" vs "stop" VM not clear
Summary: "shutdown" vs "stop" VM not clear
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal
Version: 3.1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Tomas Jelinek
QA Contact: Lukas Svaty
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Whiteboard: virt
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-14 06:50 UTC by Dan Yasny
Modified: 2013-03-08 01:50 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: si20
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-12-04 20:04:25 UTC
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Description Dan Yasny 2012-09-14 06:50:51 UTC
Description of problem:
it is not clear what stop and shutdown will do. As per discussion in rhev-beta, I suggest changing "stop" to either "kill" or "pull plug"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.1

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Comment 1 Itamar Heim 2012-09-14 09:25:41 UTC
what about rest api terminology?

Comment 2 Dan Yasny 2012-09-14 09:44:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> what about rest api terminology?

This is exactly why I was trying to shorten the wording, "shutdown" works fine, and stop can be replaced by "kill"

I am not entirely happy with "kill" though, sounds just as negative as "destroy"

Comment 4 Chris Tusa 2012-09-14 18:40:24 UTC
Destroy would indicate a permanent condition such as delete; whereas "kill" is at least a unix signal; however, it would be helpful to dig in and understand if we are sending a "SIGKILL" a "SIGTERM" or using some other facility when issuing the poweroff.

For more friendly terminilogy, I suggest:

shutdown => "shutdownos" => Shut Down OS
stop => "poweroff" => Power Off


For the API, could we not just create an alias name?

Comment 5 Stephen Gordon 2012-09-14 19:15:07 UTC
FWIW virt-manager uses the terminology 'Shutdown' and 'Force Off' for these actions.

Comment 6 Andrew Cathrow 2012-09-16 18:31:56 UTC
Let's go with Shutdown and Power Off.

Comment 7 Tomas Jelinek 2012-09-19 08:51:35 UTC
in userportal and webadmin changed: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8043/

Comment 8 Tomas Jelinek 2012-09-25 07:18:20 UTC
merged u/s: 557dc300cf2d33f25aac2f438b89b8d149bf3a6d


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