Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 User Manual
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Glossary
I
IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics, an industry standard for hard disk interfaces. See
chapter
Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI
, page
I/O APIC
See APIC.
iSCSI
Internet SCSI; see chapter
, page
M
MAC
Media Access Control, a part of an Ethernet network card. A MAC address
is a 6-byte number which identifies a network card.
It is typically written
in hexadecimal notation where the bytes are separated by colons, such as
00:17:3A:5E:CB:08
.
N
NAT
Network Address Translation. A technique to share networking interfaces by
which an interface modifies the source and/or target IP addresses of network
packets according to specific rules. Commonly employed by routers and fire-
walls to shield an internal network from the Internet, VirtualBox can use NAT
to easily share a host’s physical networking hardware with its virtual machines.
See chapter
Network Address Translation (NAT)
, page
O
OVF
Open Virtualization Format, a cross-platform industry standard to exchange vir-
tual appliances between virtualization products; see chapter
, page
P
PAE
Physical Address Extension. This allows accessing more than 4 GB of RAM even
in 32-bit environments; see chapter
, page
PIC
See APIC.
PXE
Preboot Execution Environment, an industry standard for booting PC systems
from remote network locations. It includes DHCP for IP configuration and TFTP
for file transfer. Using UNDI, a hardware independent driver stack for accessing
the network card from bootstrap code is available.
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