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 ====== VirtualBox ====== ====== 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]]   * [[http://www.virtualbox.org|VirtualBox homepage]]
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     * Edit the grub command line to set the default IO scheduler, usually in ///etc/default/grub//: ''elevator=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)   * Install guest additions (VirtualBox or VMware)
 +  * Run a virtual machine-specific kernel:
 +    * Ubuntu: linux-image-virtual
 +  * Mount filesystems with ''noatime'' in ///etc/fstab//