Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of VirtualBox architecture

Timestamp:

Nov 16, 2006 4:58:45 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

jose

Comment:

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VirtualBox architecture

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 (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.)
 
-The VM that runs "inside" the second window looks like just another Qt process to the host operating system (OS). !VirtualBox is very well behaved in that respect: it pretty much takes over control over a large part of your computer, executing a complete OS with its own set of guest processes, drivers, and devices inside this VM process, but the host OS does not notice much of this. Whatever the VM does, it's just another process in your host OS.
+To the host operating system (OS), the VM that runs "inside" the second window looks like just another Qt process. !VirtualBox is very well behaved in that respect: it pretty much takes over control over a large part of your computer, executing a complete OS with its own set of guest processes, drivers, and devices inside this VM process, but the host OS does not notice much of this. Whatever the VM does, it's just another process in your host OS.
 
 We therefore have two sorts of encapsulation in place with the various !VirtualBox files and processes: