VirtualBox for Fedora Linux

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo 

# yum install VirtualBox

Note: tested on Fedora 19. Use generic VirtualBox as keyword

because some versions of Virtual Box may not have support for our kernel.

Formatting a Hard Disk

For disk < 2TB, use fdisk
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-disk-format/

For disk > 2TB, use parted 2.3 and above
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html

Wipe a Hard Disk
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-remove-all-partitions-data-empty-disk/

To test out the performance of the disk with dd
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-test-disk-performance-with-dd-command/

To set up NFS
http://hpc-sw.blogspot.com/2014/09/setting-up-two-node-hpc-cluster.html