Glossary
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VM
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A Virtual Machine (Dynamips, IOU, Qemu, VPCS...)

Adapter
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The physical network interface. The adapter can contain multiple ports.

Port
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A port is an opening on network adapter that cable plug into.

For example a VM can have a serial and an ethernet adapter plugged in.
The ethernet adapter can have 4 ports.

Controller
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The central server managing everything in GNS3. A GNS3 controller
will manage multiple GNS3 hypervisor.

Hypervisor
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The process running on each server with GNS3. The GNS3 hypervisor 
is controlled by the GNS3 controller.