Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of VirtualBox architecture

Timestamp:

Nov 16, 2006 4:58:01 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

jose

Comment:

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VirtualBox architecture

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  1. `VirtualBox`, the GUI for the main window;
  1. another `VirtualBox` process that was started with the `-startvm` parameter, which means that its GUI process acts as a shell for a VM;
- 1. `VBoxSVC`, a service running in the background that keeps track of all the processes involved (this was automatically started by the first GUI process).
+ 1. `VBoxSVC`, the service mentioned above, which is running in the background to keep track of all the processes involved. This was automatically started by the first GUI process.
 
 (On Linux, there's another daemon process called `VBoxXPCOMIPCD` which is necessary for our XPCOM implementation to work. We will ignore this for now; see [wiki:"COM-XPCOM interoperability"] for details.)