| 1 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE glossentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Glossary//EN" "glossary.dtd">
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| 3 | <glossentry xml:lang="en-us" id="glossentry-uuid">
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| 4 | <glossterm>UUID</glossterm>
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| 5 | <glossdef>
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| 6 | A Universally Unique Identifier, often also called GUID (Globally Unique Identifier).
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| 7 | A UUID is a string of numbers and letters which can be computed dynamically and is
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| 8 | guaranteed to be unique. Generally, it is used as a global handle to identify entities.
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| 9 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> makes use of UUIDs to identify VMs, Virtual Disk Images (VDI files),
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| 10 | and other entities.
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| 11 | </glossdef>
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| 12 | </glossentry>
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