Including VirtualBox guest drivers in trusty iso.

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The out-of-the-box performance of ubuntu on VB is not very good. It needs
some extra drivers without which unity is unbearably slow. With them, a
virtualized ubuntu desktop performs very decently even as primary working
platform.

The drivers (virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-x11,
virtualbox-guest-utils) are in debian and ubuntu repos (universe) and total
to only 1.8MB.

Is there any reason not to include them directly in the 14.04 iso? You
might think of VB as hardware platform that needs to be supported. How can
I help with/go about getting them into the iso?


Rationale for better VB support:
  1)  It is a very good way to test the *development releases* of ubuntu -
instead of re installing the drivers for each nightly iso download, it will
be mighty nice to just test them.
  2)  Casual users with new windows machines can use VB as a platform for
greater *daily use* of linux:
        I conducted an informal survey of students who showed an interest
in ubuntu but didn't end up using it much and found the following:
        a) Dual boot/live CD is a barrier to ubuntu use: If a user needs
windows for a certain number of tasks, they never end up using ubuntu
because they have to reboot the machine to do so. This further hinders them
from learning to use ubuntu as their primary OS. VB will ease the
transition and increase exposure.
        b) Many of the users didn't install ubuntu, or removed ubuntu after
attempting to install it because of installation troubles. This seems to be
more of a problem with the newer laptops with newer NTFS, SSDs and uefi.
Though these problems are not insurmountable, they still result in many
lost souls to the ubuntu cause.
  3) Cuz I ask with a pretty please :)

I posted this a while back but got crickets.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/232004
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