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Glossary
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VM
---
A Virtual Machine (Dynamips, IOU, Qemu, VPCS...)
Adapter
-------
The physical network interface. The adapter can contain multiple ports.
Port
----
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
----------
The central server managing everything in GNS3. A GNS3 controller
will manage multiple GNS3 hypervisor.
Hypervisor
----------
The process running on each server with GNS3. The GNS3 hypervisor
is controlled by the GNS3 controller.