Glossary.xml

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          xml:id="VDG-Glossary" version="5.1">

  <title>Glossary</title>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-AES-encryption">
    <glossterm>AES encryption</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para><firstterm>Advanced Encryption Standard</firstterm> - very fast and secure; the de facto standard for symmetric encryption.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-zlib-compression" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-ASCII">
    <glossterm>ASCII</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a 7-bit code. ASCII encodes characters as you would enter them into a computer (like this book)</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Backing-image">
    <glossterm>Backing image</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A (typically) read-only disk image which can be used as a starting point for new read-write images.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Snapshot" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Base-image">
    <glossterm>Base-image</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Placeholder.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Backing-image" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Snapshot" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-block">
    <glossterm>block</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-block-special">
    <glossterm>block special</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Caret-notation">
    <glossterm>Caret notation</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-cat">
    <glossterm>cat</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A utility program which concatenates files and print them the standard output.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Control-character">
    <glossterm>Control character</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-cylinder">
    <glossterm>cylinder</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-dd">
    <glossterm>dd</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A utility program which can copy files, converting and formatting them according to the options given by the user.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Device-map">
    <glossterm>Device map</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Software which creates devices from partition tables which you can interact with.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Partition-table" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kpartx" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-GParted" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Partition" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-dev-null">
    <glossterm>dev null</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-dev-zero">
    <glossterm>dev zero</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-fdisk">
    <glossterm>fdisk</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A utility program which manipulates disk partition tables.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Partition" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Partition-table" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-file">
    <glossterm>file</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A utility program which is used to determine file types</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Filesystem">
    <glossterm>Filesystem</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-fuse">
    <glossterm>fuse</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-GParted">
    <glossterm>GParted</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A graphical application used for manipulating (creating, resizing, moving, copying) the filesystems of partitions.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Guest-OS">
    <glossterm>Guest OS</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>An operating system which is installed and ran on emulatd, virtual, or paravirtual hardware which is managed by hypervisor software on the Host OS.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Hypervisor" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Host-OS" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-head">
    <glossterm>head</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Host-OS">
    <glossterm>Host OS</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>The running system (server, OS) which provides resources and facilities for running several virtual Guest Operating Systems.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Guest-OS" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Hypervisor">
    <glossterm>Hypervisor</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Software blabla.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-IDE">
    <glossterm>IDE</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Image">
    <glossterm>Image</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A file which virtualization software can use as a hard disk, similar to a snapshot.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Snapshot" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-kpartx">
    <glossterm>kpartx</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Reads partition tables on a specified device and create device maps over partition segments detected.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Partition" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Lookback-device">
    <glossterm>Lookback device</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Loop-device">
    <glossterm>Loop device</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-losetup">
    <glossterm>losetup</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A utility program which sets up and controls loop devices.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Loop-device" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Loopback-device" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-ls">
    <glossterm>ls</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A command which lists directory contents and file attributes.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-LVM">
    <glossterm>LVM</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-MBR">
    <glossterm>MBR</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>The <firstterm>Master Boot Record</firstterm> holds the information on how the logical partitions, containing file systems, are organized on a storage device.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Partition" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Partition-table" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-meta-data">
    <glossterm>meta-data</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Data which describes other data; e.g., virtual disk configuration parameters.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-mount">
    <glossterm>mount</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A utility program which attaches a filesystem to a directory tree.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-umount" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Filesystem" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-NUL">
    <glossterm>NUL</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-offset">
    <glossterm>offset</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-OS">
    <glossterm>OS</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Short for <firstterm>Operating System</firstterm>.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-parted">
    <glossterm>parted</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Utility program which manipulates storage partitions</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-fdisk" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Partition">
    <glossterm>Partition</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>In storage devices, the definition of storage allocation on a device; the capacity of that region is less than or equal to that of the backing storage device; multiple partitions may exist.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Partition-table">
    <glossterm>Partition table</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Meta-data stored on a storage volume which describes the partition layout, i.e., begin/end locations, types, and other properties.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Device-map" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kpartx" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-GParted" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Partition" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-meta-data" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-QCOW2">
    <glossterm>QCOW2</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para><firstterm>QEMY Copy On Write</firstterm> image format (version 2); improves v1 with few features: snapshots, performance tuning options.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-QCOW">
    <glossterm>QCOW</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para><firstterm>QEMU Copy On Write</firstterm> image format (version 1); supports sparse files, backing files, and encryption.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-qemu-img">
    <glossterm>qemu-img</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Virtual disk manipulation tool bundled with the QEMU (Quick Emulator) software collection.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-RAW">
    <glossterm>RAW</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>The simplest type of virtual disk format, as the file contains no extra meta-data about itself, often usable without requiring special software.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-QCOW" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-QCOW2" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-meta-data" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-resize2fs">
    <glossterm>resize2fs</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Utility program which can resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-SATA">
    <glossterm>SATA</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-sector">
    <glossterm>sector</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-Snapshot">
    <glossterm>Snapshot</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>An virtual disk feature representing a moment in time, not represented as a disk image.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Backing-image" />
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Base-image" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-socket">
    <glossterm>socket</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <!-- <glossentry xml:id="gloss-stat"> -->
  <!--   <glossterm>stat</glossterm> -->
  <!--   <glossdef> -->
  <!--     <para></para> -->
  <!--     <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-Utility-program-which-displays-file-or-file-system-status." /> -->
  <!--   </glossdef> -->
  <!-- </glossentry> -->

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-superuser">
    <glossterm>superuser</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-symlink">
    <glossterm>symlink</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-UNIX">
    <glossterm>UNIX</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-umount">
    <glossterm>umount</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Utility program which detaches the file system(s) mentioned from the file hierarchy.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-mount" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-virsh">
    <glossterm>virsh</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-x86-boot-sector">
    <glossterm>x86 boot sector</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para></para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

  <glossentry xml:id="gloss-zlib-compression">
    <glossterm>zlib compression</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression library.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-AES-encryption" />
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

</glossary>