= Binaries Overview =

When you build !VitualBox, you get a rather large number of binary files which make up the product. This page tries to explain what purpose they serve and thereby also give you a better understanding of its modular architecture. In the table, for cross platform files, the Windows file extensions are used assuming that Linux users know that .exe is omitted and .dll becomes .so on their platform.

|| '''File name''' || '''Description''' ||

|| VBoxBFE.exe || Basic frontend. This is mainly a development aid and bypasses our COM layer by talking directly to the VMM API. We also make use of this frontend on embedded systems such as µ-kernels. ||

|| VBoxC.dll ||  ||