Changeset 34841 in vbox

Timestamp:

Dec 8, 2010 4:37:16 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Manual: fix typos (forum)

Location:

trunk/doc/manual/en_US

Files:

• user_GuestAdditions.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• user_Introduction.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• user_Storage.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• user_VBoxManage.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_GuestAdditions.xml

@@ -102 +102 @@
             "guest properties" provide a generic string-based mechanism to
             exchange data bits between a guest and a host, some of which have
-            special meanings for contolling and monitoring the guest; see
+            special meanings for controlling and monitoring the guest; see
             <xref linkend="guestadd-guestprops" /> for details.</para>
 
@@ -660 +660 @@
               <listitem>
                 <para>Install DKMS using <screen>urpmi dkms</screen> and make
-                sure the choose the correct kernel-devel package when asked by
+                sure to choose the correct kernel-devel package when asked by
                 the installer (use <computeroutput>uname -a</computeroutput>
                 to compare).</para>

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Introduction.xml

@@ -850 +850 @@
           <para>If your medium is not in the list (especially if you are using
           VirtualBox for the first time), select the small folder icon next to
-          the the drop-down list to bring up a standard file dialog, with with
+          the drop-down list to bring up a standard file dialog, with which
           you can pick the image file on your host disks.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -1380 +1380 @@
         ongoing process. In particular, no guarantee is made that VirtualBox
         supports all appliances created by other virtualization software. For
-        a list of know limitations, please see <xref
+        a list of known limitations, please see <xref
         linkend="KnownIssues" />.</para>
       </note></para>

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Storage.xml

@@ -138 +138 @@
           version of VirtualBox, or because SATA is not supported by default
           by the selected guest operating system), go to the "Storage" page of
-          of the machine's settings dialog, click on the "Add Controller"
-          button under the "Storage Tree" box and then select "Add SATA
-          Controller". After this, the additional controller will appear as a
-          separate PCI device in the virtual machine, and you can add virtual
-          disks to it.</para>
+          the machine's settings dialog, click on the "Add Controller" button
+          under the "Storage Tree" box and then select "Add SATA Controller".
+          After this, the additional controller will appear as a separate PCI
+          device in the virtual machine, and you can add virtual disks to
+          it.</para>
 
           <para>To change the IDE compatibility mode settings for the SATA
-          controller, please see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-storagectl" />.</para>
+          controller, please see <xref
+          linkend="vboxmanage-storagectl" />.</para>
         </listitem>
 
@@ -718 +719 @@
     VM can access the data much faster.</para>
 
-    <para>Note that this applies only to image files; buffering never occured
+    <para>Note that this applies only to image files; buffering never occurred
     virtual disks residing on remote iSCSI storage, which is the more common
     scenario in enterprise-class setups (see <xref
@@ -782 +783 @@
     maximum bandwidth used for asynchronous I/O. Additionally it supports
     sharing limits through bandwidth groups for several images. It is possible
-    to have more than one such limit. </para>
+    to have more than one such limit.</para>
 
     <para>Limits are configured through

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_VBoxManage.xml

@@ -224 +224 @@
         <listitem>
           <para><computeroutput>hddbackends</computeroutput> lists all known
-          hdd backends of VirtualBox. Beside the name of the backend itself,
-          descriptions about the capabilities, configuration and other useful
-          informations are displayed.</para>
+          virtual disk back-ends of VirtualBox. For each such format (such as
+          VDI, VMDK or RAW), this lists the back-end's capabilities and
+          configuration.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist></para>
@@ -482 +482 @@
 
           <listitem>
-            <para><computeroutput>--cpuexecutioncap &lt;1-100&gt;</computeroutput>: This
-            setting controls how much cpu time a virtual CPU can use. A value of
-            50 implies a single virtual CPU can use up to 50% of a single host CPU.</para>
+            <para><computeroutput>--cpuexecutioncap
+            &lt;1-100&gt;</computeroutput>: This setting controls how much cpu
+            time a virtual CPU can use. A value of 50 implies a single virtual
+            CPU can use up to 50% of a single host CPU.</para>
           </listitem>
 
@@ -1354 +1355 @@
 
       <listitem>
-        <para>The <computeroutput>cpuexecutioncap &lt;1-100&gt;</computeroutput>: This
-        operation controls how much cpu time a virtual CPU can use. A value of
-        50 implies a single virtual CPU can use up to 50% of a single host CPU.</para>
+        <para>The <computeroutput>cpuexecutioncap
+        &lt;1-100&gt;</computeroutput>: This operation controls how much cpu
+        time a virtual CPU can use. A value of 50 implies a single virtual CPU
+        can use up to 50% of a single host CPU.</para>
       </listitem>
-
     </itemizedlist>
   </sect1>
@@ -1569 +1570 @@
 
           <glossdef>
-            <para>The number of the the storage controller's port which is to
-            be modified. Mandatory.</para>
+            <para>The number of the storage controller's port which is to be
+            modified. Mandatory.</para>
           </glossdef>
         </glossentry>
@@ -1578 +1579 @@
 
           <glossdef>
-            <para>The number of the the port's device which is to be modified.
+            <para>The number of the port's device which is to be modified.
             Mandatory.</para>
           </glossdef>
@@ -2545 +2546 @@
 
                   <para>By default, the new process in the guest will be
-                  created with the the standard environment of the guest OS.
-                  This option allows for modifying that environment. To
-                  set/modify a variable, a pair of
+                  created with the standard environment of the guest OS. This
+                  option allows for modifying that environment. To set/modify
+                  a variable, a pair of
                   <computeroutput>NAME=VALUE</computeroutput> must be
                   specified; to unset a certain variable, the name with no