Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of VirtualBox


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May 14, 2009, 3:52:35 PM (16 years ago)
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Nicolas
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    6565the running appliance through a Remote Desktop connection, which can be
    6666properly secured both in term of authentication and encrypted traffic (that is
    67     to say, these features are already supported by !VirtualBox).
     67to say, these features are already supported by !VirtualBox).
    6868 
    6969== Conclusions ==
     
    176176This way, we don't even require privileges to launch the server instances. Because
    177177the file sharing must remain private, the chirp server is run on the guests. The host agent
    178 would act as a client that'd send or retrieve files. We spare ourselves from all the
     178would act as a client that would send or retrieve files. We spare ourselves from all the
    179179gory details involved in the actual management of the transfers, delegating the job
    180180to chirp (which deals with it brilliantly, by the way).
     
    209209}}}
    210210
    211 Notice the -m 1 flag, to avoid going through the many megabytes the file is
     211Notice the `-m 1` flag, to avoid going through the many megabytes the file is
    212212worth. In place modifications of this UUID can be trivially performed in-place
    213 by using, for instance, sed.
    214 
     213by using, for instance, `sed`.
    215214
    216215This prototype has been implemented in Python, given its cross-platform nature and the suitability
     
    219218=== Overview ===
    220219Upon initialization, guests connect to the broker, that's expected to listen on the
    221 default STOMP port 61613 at the guest's gateway IP. 
     220default STOMP port 61613 at the guest's gateway IP.
    222221Once connected, it "shouts out" he's joined the party, providing a its unique id (see
    223222following section for details). Upon reception, the BOINC host notes down this unique id for
     
    225224host acknowledges the new guest (using the STOMP-provided ack mechanisms).
    226225
    227 
    228226=== Unique Identification of Guests ===
    229227The preferred way to identify guests is based simply on their IP.
    230 
    231228
    232229=== Tailor-made STOMP Messages ===
     
    315312
    316313== API Accesibility ==
    317 The host agent functionalities are made accesible through a XML-RPC
     314The host agent functionality is made accessible through a XML-RPC
    318315based API. This choice aims to provide a simple yet fully functional,
    319316standard and multiplatform mechanism of communication between this
    320 agent and the outside world, namely the BOINC wrapper.
    321 
     317agent and the outside world, namely the BOINC wrapper.
    322318
    323319== Dependencies ==
     
    333329    package has been included as part of the standard library as "json" in Python 2.6.
    334330
    335 == Miscelaneous Features ==
     331== Miscellaneous Features ==
    336332 * Multiplatform: it runs wherever a python runtime is available. All
    337333   the described dependencies are likewise portable.
     
    350346[[Image(classDiagram.png)]]
    351347
    352 
    353348== Conclusions ==
    354349
     
    356351it as a candidate for an independent implementation for the aforementioned features
    357352of command execution and file transference.
    358 
    359353
    360354== TO-DO ==