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Show HN: Ksm – a lightweight hypervisor for Windows (eptp vmfunc+idt shadow)
- IanDrake 10y agoMaybe not the best name.
- asamy45 10y agoIt was a random name, to be honest :)
- corysama 10y agoUnfortunately, that's all anyone will talk about until you change it... It's easier to make snide comments than to actually try understand something as technical as this. Nice work, btw.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoYou're right. We see this with Coq theorem prover where at least 1 slide or FAQ has to be about the name. Forever. Author should change it immediately while change has no negative effect.
- asamy45 10y agoFeel free to suggest a name then, naming isn't really my thing.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoMine either. Least you're open to it.
- asamy45 10y agocorysama, yeah, it's based on KVM, I am not very creative in the naming field. Yes, it's kernel based. Thanks for the suggestion.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoNot saying go with it because I suck at names but... Simple Kernel Machine, Kernel Tiny Machine. The idea being you look at what your goals are with the program or the traits it possesses that differentiate it. Then, you either (a) find an original word or phrase for that, or (b) create a pun on original source, KVM here, that fits those goals or attributes. You can often change it later as most projects don't get massively popular. Just easier early on. Any are better than the current one, though. ;)
- asamy45 10y agoRenamed to KSM then, thanks!
- corysama 10y agoI'm guessing that KUM is a play on KVM. Is your project really Kernel based? A lot of *VM names are understandably already taken by big players. However, googling "MinVM" only turns up one little solo project that hasn't been updated in a couple years. I don't think you would be too rude to clash with that. Minvm seems like an appropriate match for your goals.