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Windows can only enable or + disable ACPI support at installation time.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>AHCI</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Advanced Host Controller Interface, the interface that supports + SATA devices such as hard disks. See <xref + linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>AMD-V</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>The hardware virtualization features built into modern AMD + processors. See <xref linkend="hwvirt" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>API</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Application Programming Interface.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>APIC</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller, a newer version of + the original PC PIC (programmable interrupt controller). Most modern + CPUs contain an on-chip APIC ("local APIC"). Many systems also contain + an I/O APIC (input output APIC) as a separate chip which provides more + than 16 IRQs. Windows 2000 and higher use a different kernel if they + detect an I/O APIC during installation. Therefore an I/O APIC must not + be removed after installation.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>ATA</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Advanced Technology Attachment, an industry standard for hard + disk interfaces (synonymous with IDE). See <xref + linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>B</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>BIOS</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Basic Input/Output System, the firmware built into most personal + computers which is responsible of initializing the hardware after the + computer has been turned on and then booting an operating system. + VirtualBox ships with its own virtual BIOS that runs when a virtual + machine is started.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>C</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>COM</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Microsoft Component Object Model, a programming infrastructure + for modular software. COM allows applications to provide application + programming interfaces which can be accessed from various other + programming languages and applications. VirtualBox makes use of COM + both internally and externally to provide a comprehensive API to 3rd + party developers.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>D</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>DHCP</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This allows a networking + device in a network to acquire its IP address (and other networking + details) automatically, in order to avoid having to configure all + devices in a network with fixed IP addresses. VirtualBox has a + built-in DHCP server that delivers an IP addresses to a virtual + machine when networking is configured to NAT; see <xref + linkend="networkingdetails" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>DKMS</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Dynamic Kernel Module Support. A framework that simplifies + installing and updating external kernel modules on Linux machines; see + <xref linkend="externalkernelmodules" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>E</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>EFI</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Extensible Firmware Interface, a firmware built into computers + which is designed to replace the aging BIOS. Originally designed by + Intel, most modern operating systems can now boot on computers which + have EFI instead of a BIOS built into them; see <xref + linkend="efi" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>EHCI</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Enhanced Host Controller Interface, the interface that + implements the USB 2.0 standard.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>G</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>GUI</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Graphical User Interface. Commonly used as an antonym to a + "command line interface", in the context of VirtualBox, we sometimes + refer to the main graphical + <computeroutput>VirtualBox</computeroutput> program as the "GUI", to + differentiate it from the <computeroutput>VBoxManage</computeroutput> + interface.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>GUID</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>See UUID.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>I</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>IDE</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Integrated Drive Electronics, an industry standard for hard disk + interfaces. See <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>I/O APIC</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>See APIC.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>iSCSI</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Internet SCSI; see <xref linkend="storage-iscsi" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>M</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>MAC</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Media Access Control, a part of an Ethernet network card. A MAC + address is a 6-byte number which identifies a network card. It is + typically written in hexadecimal notation where the bytes are + separated by colons, such as + <computeroutput>00:17:3A:5E:CB:08</computeroutput>.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>MSI</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Message Signalled Interrupts, as supported by modern chipsets + such as the ICH9; see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />. As + opposed to traditional pin-based interrupts, with MSI, a small amount + of data can accompany the actual interrupt message. This reduces the + amount of hardware pins required, allows for more interrupts and + better performance.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>N</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>NAT</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Network Address Translation. A technique to share networking + interfaces by which an interface modifies the source and/or target IP + addresses of network packets according to specific rules. Commonly + employed by routers and firewalls to shield an internal network from + the Internet, VirtualBox can use NAT to easily share a host's physical + networking hardware with its virtual machines. See <xref + linkend="network_nat" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>O</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>OVF</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Open Virtualization Format, a cross-platform industry standard + to exchange virtual appliances between virtualization products; see + <xref linkend="ovf" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>P</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>PAE</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Physical Address Extension. This allows accessing more than 4 GB + of RAM even in 32-bit environments; see <xref + linkend="settings-general-advanced" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>PIC</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>See APIC.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>PXE</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Preboot Execution Environment, an industry standard for booting + PC systems from remote network locations. It includes DHCP for IP + configuration and TFTP for file transfer. Using UNDI, a hardware + independent driver stack for accessing the network card from bootstrap + code is available.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>R</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>RDP</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Remote Desktop Protocol, a protocol developed by Microsoft as an + extension to the ITU T.128 and T.124 video conferencing protocol. With + RDP, a PC system can be controlled from a remote location using a + network connection over which data is transferred in both directions. + Typically graphics updates and audio are sent from the remote machine + and keyboard and mouse input events are sent from the client. A + VirtualBox extension package by Oracle provides VRDP, an enhanced + implementation of the relevant standards which is largely compatible + with Microsoft's RDP implementation. See <xref linkend="vrde" /> for + details.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>S</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>SAS</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Serial Attached SCSI, an industry standard for hard disk + interfaces. See <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>SATA</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Serial ATA, an industry standard for hard disk interfaces. See + <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>SCSI</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Small Computer System Interface. An industry standard for data + transfer between devices, especially for storage. See <xref + linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>SMP</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Symmetrical Multiprocessing, meaning that the resources of a + computer are shared between several processors. These can either be + several processor chips or, as is more common with modern hardware, + multiple CPU cores in one processor.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>SSD</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Solid-state drive, uses microships for storing data in a computer + system. Compared to classical hard-disks they are having no mechanical + components like spinning disks. + </para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>T</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>TAR</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>A widely used file format for archiving. Originally, this stood + for "Tape ARchive" and was already supported by very early Unix + versions for backing up data on tape. The file format is still widely + used today, for example, with OVF archives (with an + <computeroutput>.ova</computeroutput> file extension); see <xref + linkend="ovf" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>U</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>UUID</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>A Universally Unique Identifier -- often also called GUID + (Globally Unique Identifier) -- is a string of numbers and letters + which can be computed dynamically and is guaranteed to be unique. + Generally, it is used as a global handle to identify entities. + VirtualBox makes use of UUIDs to identify VMs, Virtual Disk Images + (VDI files) and other entities.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>V</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>VM</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Virtual Machine -- a virtual computer that VirtualBox allows you + to run on top of your actual hardware. See <xref + linkend="virtintro" /> for details.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>VMM</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Virtual Machine Manager -- the component of VirtualBox that + controls VM execution. See <xref linkend="technical-components" /> for + a list of VirtualBox components.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>VRDE</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension. This interface is built + into VirtualBox to allow VirtualBox extension packages to supply + remote access to virtual machines. A VirtualBox extension package by + Oracle provides VRDP support; see <xref linkend="vrde" /> for + details.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>VRDP</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>See RDP.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>VT-x</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>The hardware virtualization features built into modern Intel + processors. See <xref linkend="hwvirt" />.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> + + <glossdiv> + <title>X</title> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>XML</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>The eXtensible Markup Language, a metastandard for all kinds of + textual information. XML only specifies how data in the document is + organized generally and does not prescribe how to semantically + organize content.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>XPCOM</glossterm> + + <glossdef> + <para>Mozilla Cross Platform Component Object Model, a programming + infrastructure developed by the Mozilla browser project which is + similar to Microsoft COM and allows applications to provide a modular + programming interface. VirtualBox makes use of XPCOM on Linux both + internally and externally to provide a comprehensive API to + third-party developers.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + </glossdiv> +</glossary> |