I put all the steps for setting up a completely working EQEMU server under a Virtual Machine up... From downloading and installing the VirtualBox software, to downloading and installing the OS (Ubuntu 11.10) ...
And a complete script for taking the machine from virgin install to downloading the source, db's, maps, etc... compiling/makes, fixing/modding the INI files and so on.
All you do is the easy stuff (and x-fer the spells file) at the end.
Take a look, if I am permitted to include a link -- I will make mods for other OSs (centos, others by request) and VM types (VMware) in the next week or two.
See :
http://www.proskeptic.com/wordpress
Any questions, you can post here, OR private message me here.. tomorrow I will have email enabled there.