Fedora is a main player and a 2-year old release just won't cut it.

Actually, Fedora 7 is supported...I just forgot to update the information about it.

It's debatable whether Fedora is the best Open Source Linux distro for servers, with me coming down on the other side of that debate. Short lifecycle is a world of pain waiting to happen for anyone who administers Fedora on remote servers. ;-)

I use Fedora on my desktop, and like it a lot...but my servers run distros with longer life in them, like CentOS, Debian, and RHEL.

Actually I have VM pro running fine on Fedora8. I had to install it manually which was not that much of a problem. The value of an install script from you is to give us an idea of what a correctly installed, working and configured installation looks like so when (not if) we make changes and something won't work we have some idea what to go back to. The value of VM to me is to do quick and easy configuration in future work. I don't mind time-consuming, tedious work now if it saves me time in the future.