I would like to set up Ubuntu in headless mode - configured to operate without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse; probably without access to graphics hardware altogether. The rationale for this is: I will have a KVM virtual machine running that would have graphics hardware to itself.
How do I do it? Which Ubuntu distribution could I be using and why? The options that come to my mind are desktop and server, but both don't offer an option to be installed in headless mode by default, or do they?
I am going to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64 on a ThinkPad X Series (intel integrated graphics).