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--- virtualbox [2011/05/05 08:53] – [Create a VM] aorth
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 ====== VirtualBox ======
-VirtualBox is a free/opensource Hypervisor from Sun Microsystems.  It has performance on par with VMware and is very mature.  We have two virtualization servers, [[biovbox]] and biovboxtesting.
+VirtualBox is a free, open-source hypervisor from Oracle.  It has performance on par with VMware and is very mature.  We have two virtualization servers which run VirtualBox on top of CentOS, [[biovbox]] and biovboxtest.
   * [[http://www.virtualbox.org|VirtualBox homepage]]
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   * Notes about ''divider=10'': [[http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427|VMware]], [[http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=62|Blog article]]
-  * Set the IO scheduler to ''noop''
+  * Set the IO scheduler to ''noop'':
+    * Edit the grub command line to set the default IO scheduler, usually in ///etc/default/grub//: ''elevator=noop''
+  * Install guest additions (VirtualBox or VMware)
+  * Run a virtual machine-specific kernel:
+    * Ubuntu: linux-image-virtual
+  * Mount filesystems with ''noatime'' in ///etc/fstab//