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Here are the differences between a minimal virtual machine, minimal and normal using  all with ssh during initial setup. The following commands were used,

dpkg --get-selections | wc -1 # how many packages installed
free -h # how much memory used
ps aux | wc -l # how many processes (including the two to run this command)
df -h | grep root # how much disk used (not going to bother counting the small 30MB for boot

Ubuntu 10.04.4

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Line ItemAttribute	Minimal Virtual Machine	Minimal	Normal	Recently Ubuntu Snappy 15.04	Stripped Solari 10 (Just for Fun)
Packages	213	313	356	2 core packages containing minimal utilities
Tasks	84	85	87	174
Memory on Initial Boot	73,980k	86,584k	171,392k	167,051
Disk Space	557M	791M	851M	639M
Boot Time
Key Advantage	Reduced fat due to uniformity of virtual machines.	Minimal to run a normal Server.		Upgrade core OS as 1 package and revert btw OS upgrades quickly. Made for pure Cloud.

Using the minimal virtual machine install, I did find that I wanted some packages back documented as Recommended Tools in the Bonsai Framework Ubuntu setup process.

Ubuntu 16.04.1

References

Provided what the differences between the installs are - http://askubuntu.com/questions/57336/minimal-system-or-minimal-virtual-machine-on-install