Something I noted about the project.  While I am all for a virtual image 
for testing purposes and getting things up and running while we're 
creating this project, I think the ultimate goal should be something 
like an ISO that's ready to go on a server. There are many of us in the 
systems world who have not bought into the whole virtualisation 
marketing gimmick when it comes to system deployment, and for the casual 
home user who's less comfortable with using VMs for an actual production 
system (which is, to be honest, a lot of people), it might be easier in 
the long term to get everything the way we want it and then make an ISO 
that's ready to drop onto whatever machine with all the components we need.