How do I package ubuntu for virtual box in a ready-to-eat format so I can foist it on every person who owns a laptop? (that way they have NO barrier to use it: neither in the install or the required rebooting for dual boot)
Ubuntu has very poor out-of-the-box performance as a guest in virtual box due to the high dependence on hardware acceleration for it's all important eyecandy/perfectly-purple-pixels. For a usable system the virtualbox VM needs to be configured to allow 3D acceleration and Ubuntu needs specific drivers to benefit from this. How can I go about packaging the whole shebang so noobs get a ready to eat package?
Target Group: Noobs who show the slightest curiosity; acquaintances and distant family susceptible to cajoling, coercion and emotional blackmail; anyone with a new machine. More technical users can configure VBox machines themselves, setup dualboots or just ditch windows like I did.
I posted a question on launchpad a while ago but that is gathering dust.. (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/232004)
Ideally I would like the Ubuntu iso to contain the drivers to support virtual box, since it too is an important "platform". My questions are :
- The drivers and extensions are under some GPL incompatible opensource license (CDL I think) Is there any technical/legal problem in including them on the iso? (there are ready to use debs on the official ubuntu repo already that use DKMS+source code)
- How can I file a request to include them on the iso? I had no luck on launchpad, either on my own or with my request for guidance.
Update:
The question has no reduced to "how do I ask for the virtualbox-guest-additions package to be included by default in the ubuntu 13.10 iso?"