As we needed it for one of our customers, I've started to add support for Debian to the Ubuntu VMBuilder. My changes are not merged into trunk yet, but you can get them by running bzr branch lp:~bzed/vmbuilder/debian. At the moment there is only support for Etch, I'll add Lenny and Squeeze as soon as I find the time for it, probably next week - patches are welcome.
Hi,
One of our selected projects is about vmbuilder:
"On-demand Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus Integration" (Student: David Wendt Jr, Mentor: Steffen Moeller)
A few pointers:
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2009#SelectedProjects
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2009-June/000590.html
http://dwgsoc09blog.blogspot.com/search/label/to-debian-gsoc
Cheers