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I would like to provide to my students a Virtual Machine several software pre-installed. The software is updated quite regularly so an automated way to generate a VM would be very useful. I plan to use the MATE edition of Ubuntu 22.04 . I am wondering if there is any preseed template for this version available?

So far I use VirtualBox as VM software, but a solution with other VM manager (like qemu) would still be useful, as I probably can convert the image to the VirtualBox format in a later step.

I found this short documentation about Ubiquity Automation and ubiquity/success_command sounds promising, but it is unclear to me where to put this command.

[My question is similar to this one. But unlike the previous question, it is ok for me to code.]

Alex338207
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    Why do you say "this option is no longer possible"? My understanding is that the 22.04 Desktop Installer still uses Ubiquity (which is based on debian-installer) and can be automated with a preseed file. If you dig around there are a few Questions on this site about using the server installer to install a desktop system. E.g. https://askubuntu.com/a/1292033/376778 – Andrew Lowther Dec 09 '22 at 22:58
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    Perhaps clone the modified OS to an image file, (.img), and then convert that to VDI for distribution? see: https://www.unixmen.com/linux-basics-convert-img-files-to-vdi-format-for-oracle-virtualbox/ – C.S.Cameron Dec 10 '22 at 04:39
  • @AndrewLowther Thanks a lot! Indeed, preseed should still be possible. I got confused with the Desktop/Server installation routines. I will update my question. – Alex338207 Dec 11 '22 at 20:03

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