[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Introducing Automated-guest-installs for VirtualBox !

[Alexey Eromenko]

Introducing Automated-guest-installs for VirtualBox !

vbox-unattended.
This is an unofficial addon patch on top of Oracle VirtualBox. Highly
experimental !
It allows fully-automatic installs of virtual machines in VirtualBox
and provides tight integration with each supported OS. Very fast !

Why I write 'vbox-unattended' ?

Because:
Installing Windows XP by coffee-drinking people takes about 30 min
Installing Windows XP by active geek, clicking instantly takes about 15 min
Installing Windows XP by Unattended Install, takes about 10 min,
letting people to drink coffee in first place.
(on standard Core2-class hardware with HDD)

In addition to Windows (XP/Vista/7), it also supports Red Hat (3/4/5),
SUSE and Debian 6 (!) guests auto-install.
And here I need help !

You're welcome to test it:
1.a. Grab the latest VirtualBox-5.0.0 (BETA2) sources, then apply my
patch; vbox-unattended-v0.9.
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=46798&start=15
-or-
1.b. For the lazy among you, I provide a binary installer of
VirtualBox_TE [1] for Linux-x64/amd64.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BycgkMZbeQOzLTB3eThnWnZIX0E/view?usp=sharing

2. install new dependencies: 7-zip and mtools
3. copy unattended scripts to /opt/VirtualBox/vbox-unattended/
Scripts can be found inside patch, or separate install from here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BycgkMZbeQOzVlZadURFbE8zWms&authuser=0

4. [optional] copy Oracle's guest additions to
/opt/VirtualBox/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
5. grab yourself a Debian 6.0 installation DVD media (either 32-bit or
64-bit PC) -- something like "debian-6.0.x-amd64-DVD-1.iso"

Enjoy !

Need help:
1. testing
2. supporting Debian 7 and Debian 8 (I have some issues with those;
particularly with newer debian-installer)


[1] VirtualBox_TE, stands for Technologov's Edition, as per my nick-name.
-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 01.May.2015.