Had a chance to read this again. I get busy a lot, and that's a problem with developing something like this. That's also why I'm so interested in creating a manner of allowing it to self-update once you get a particular release to keep current. That's all still in the brainstorming phase, though, but I should have more time to play with this RealSoonNow(tm).
Torrents are awesome for distributing massive, unchanging releases without having to break the bank hosting it somewhere. The idea will be to download a generic base VM, check for updates to the various components that make up the server, maybe do some minimal custom setup (server name, etc) and you'd be ready to roll. Something as close as possible to the ideal of "Retrieve. Run. Ready to roll."
About mention of laws, though, for distributing this. One of the initial steps is going to have to include adding your own spell file to the server directory. That is to my knowledge the only protected content that an EQEMu server needs to run, so everything else should be just fine.
Anywho, can't talk much on this today, will try to get some more polishing-work done on the vm soon and get it to a state where it's easily accessible.
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