Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of VirtualBox architecture

Timestamp:

Nov 16, 2006 3:49:44 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

jose

Comment:

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VirtualBox architecture

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 == The !VirtualBox modules: a bird's eye view ==
 
-When you start the !VirtualBox graphical user interface (GUI), at least one extra process gets started along the way -- the !VirtualBox server, normally dubbed `VBoxSVC`. The !VirtualBox GUI is only one of several "frontends" to the !VirtualBox "core", which is encapsulated in several rather large libraries (among them `VBoxVMM.dll`, or `VBoxVMM.so`).
+When you start the !VirtualBox graphical user interface (GUI), at least one extra process gets started along the way -- the !VirtualBox service, normally dubbed `VBoxSVC`. The !VirtualBox GUI is only one of several "frontends" to the !VirtualBox "core", which is encapsulated in several libraries (among them `VBoxVMM.dll`, or `VBoxVMM.so`).
 
 Once you start a virtual machine (VM) from the GUI, you have three processes running:
 
  1. `VirtualBox`, the GUI for the main window;
- 1. `VirtualBoxSVC`, a daemon running in the background that keeps track of all the processes involved (this was automatically started by the first GUI process);
+ 1. `VBoxSVC`, a daemon running in the background that keeps track of all the processes involved (this was automatically started by the first GUI process);
  1. another `VirtualBox` process that was started with the `-startvm` parameter, which means that its GUI process acts as a shell for a VM.