manuals: document VIRTUAL-RUNTIME variables

Document the convention to use variables prefixed by VIRTUAL_RUNTIME.
Add references to the new term where possible.

Another reason is that such variables are recommended
in a warning issued by meta/classes-global/insane.bbclass

(From yocto-docs rev: 11e1ba97edac979868f199e43c1004db6678044c)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reported-by: Tim Orling <ticotimo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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All devices created by ``devtmpfs`` will be owned by ``root`` and have
permissions ``0600``.
To have more control over the device nodes, you can use a device manager
like ``udev`` or ``busybox-mdev``. You choose the device manager by
defining the ``VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager`` variable in your machine or
distro configuration file. Alternatively, you can set this variable in
To have more control over the device nodes, you can use a device manager like
``udev`` or ``busybox-mdev``. You choose the device manager by defining the
:term:`VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager <VIRTUAL-RUNTIME>` variable in your machine
or distro configuration file. Alternatively, you can set this variable in
your ``local.conf`` configuration file::
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager = "udev"