Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 user manual Apic See Apic

Glossary

C

COM Microsoft Component Object Model, a programming infrastructure for modular software. COM allows applications to provide application programming inter- faces 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.

D

DHCP 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 ad- dresses. VirtualBox has a built-in DHCP server that delivers an IP addresses to a virtual machine when networking is configured to NAT; see chapter 6, Virtual networking, page 82.

DKMS Dynamic Kernel Module Support. A framework that simplifies installing and updating external kernel modules on Linux machines; see chapter 2.3.2, The VirtualBox kernel module, page 21.

E

EHCI Enhanced Host Controller Interface, the interface that implements the USB 2.0 standard.

G

GUI 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 VirtualBox program as the “GUI”, to differentiate it from the VBoxManage interface.

GUID See UUID.

I

IDE Integrated Drive Electronics, an industry standard for hard disk interfaces. See chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 75.

I/O APIC See APIC.

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