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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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