Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of VirtualBox

Timestamp:

May 14, 2009, 3:52:35 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Nicolas

Comment:

More typos fixed

VirtualBox

@@ -65 +65 @@
 the running appliance through a Remote Desktop connection, which can be
 properly secured both in term of authentication and encrypted traffic (that is
-    to say, these features are already supported by !VirtualBox).
+to say, these features are already supported by !VirtualBox).
  
 == Conclusions ==
@@ -176 +176 @@
 This way, we don't even require privileges to launch the server instances. Because
 the file sharing must remain private, the chirp server is run on the guests. The host agent
-would act as a client that'd send or retrieve files. We spare ourselves from all the 
+would act as a client that would send or retrieve files. We spare ourselves from all the 
 gory details involved in the actual management of the transfers, delegating the job
 to chirp (which deals with it brilliantly, by the way).
@@ -209 +209 @@
 }}}
 
-Notice the -m 1 flag, to avoid going through the many megabytes the file is
+Notice the `-m 1` flag, to avoid going through the many megabytes the file is
 worth. In place modifications of this UUID can be trivially performed in-place
-by using, for instance, sed. 
-
+by using, for instance, `sed`.
 
 This prototype has been implemented in Python, given its cross-platform nature and the suitability
@@ -219 +218 @@
 === Overview ===
 Upon initialization, guests connect to the broker, that's expected to listen on the 
-default STOMP port 61613 at the guest's gateway IP. 
+default STOMP port 61613 at the guest's gateway IP.
 Once connected, it "shouts out" he's joined the party, providing a its unique id (see
 following section for details). Upon reception, the BOINC host notes down this unique id for
@@ -225 +224 @@
 host acknowledges the new guest (using the STOMP-provided ack mechanisms).
 
-
 === Unique Identification of Guests ===
 The preferred way to identify guests is based simply on their IP.
-
 
 === Tailor-made STOMP Messages ===
@@ -315 +312 @@
 
 == API Accesibility ==
-The host agent functionalities are made accesible through a XML-RPC
+The host agent functionality is made accessible through a XML-RPC
 based API. This choice aims to provide a simple yet fully functional, 
 standard and multiplatform mechanism of communication between this
-agent and the outside world, namely the BOINC wrapper. 
-
+agent and the outside world, namely the BOINC wrapper.
 
 == Dependencies ==
@@ -333 +329 @@
     package has been included as part of the standard library as "json" in Python 2.6.
 
-== Miscelaneous Features ==
+== Miscellaneous Features ==
  * Multiplatform: it runs wherever a python runtime is available. All
    the described dependencies are likewise portable. 
@@ -350 +346 @@
 [[Image(classDiagram.png)]]
 
-
 == Conclusions ==
 
@@ -356 +351 @@
 it as a candidate for an independent implementation for the aforementioned features
 of command execution and file transference.
-
 
 == TO-DO ==