Use the available tools
Why not put together a meta-package that pulls in and configures all the other bits? All the tools are there, or are you wanting someone else to do all the work for you?
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I've repeatedly hit the brick wall of "Oh, you're using virtualization? Replicate the problem on physical hardware and then we'll talk." And every single time, the problem has been with their software and not the virtual environment. The short of it is that if the problem where the environment it would be experienced by several, if not all, applications.
If you think it's a strong update you haven't seen the bug reports due to regressions.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/277432
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gajim/+bug/291174
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mount/+bug/293062
Each of these are problems that were introduced by the 8.10 release.