This is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated features of VirtualBox. VMWare has a similar feature called "Easy Install".
I was looking into it and VirtualBox actually supports this but it's not exposed in the New VM workflow, it needs to be done in the terminal, which at that point, you're almost better off just clicking through the installer in the VM.
There is a great post by Simon Coter on the Oracle blog describing this feature called "Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2: unattended Guest OS install".
I think such an amazing and powerful feature should be more accessible. Please make this an optional installation option in the new VM GUI.
Expose Unattended Installation Feature via New VM GUI
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Re: Expose Unattended Installation Feature via New VM GUI
The blog appears to be https://blogs.oracle.com/scoter/oracle- ... os-install, which is very close to the manual section 3.2 https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03. ... unattended.
This forum is for discussing the suggestion, not actually getting the suggestion implemented. To ask the devs about it, post an enhancement request on the Bugtracker.
Honestly, expect it to go nowhere, so you won't be disappointed. The devs have said that they have more than enough work to do fixing bugs and keeping Oracle's paying customers happy. So ideas from free Virtualbox users probably won't be implemented unless an Oracle customer with sufficient licenses already had it.
Now that I've dropped the bomb, user code can be contributed and considered for inclusion.
This forum is for discussing the suggestion, not actually getting the suggestion implemented. To ask the devs about it, post an enhancement request on the Bugtracker.
Honestly, expect it to go nowhere, so you won't be disappointed. The devs have said that they have more than enough work to do fixing bugs and keeping Oracle's paying customers happy. So ideas from free Virtualbox users probably won't be implemented unless an Oracle customer with sufficient licenses already had it.
Now that I've dropped the bomb, user code can be contributed and considered for inclusion.