i'm sure you know this, but i just wanted to point out that the 18gb of RAM will be wasted if you don't use a 64bit version of ubuntu (or whatever OS is running inside the virtual machine) since the 32bit cannot access more than 4gb.
this is a problem, i completely forgot about that. well, this virtual machine is only 32-bit, which means i'd have to try to setup a 64-bit vm with the console and toolchain (good luck to me), i'll try to set it up later this week.
alex sent me his copy of the summon-arm-toolchain script he used to compile his environment. The wiki needs to be updated to link to this script (if it works, i'll test later this week), as the script linked in the wiki has changed a lot. If I can figure it out I"ll try to update the wiki or something.
Back to the console errror though, if it does it again I'll screencap and email it to you, but it is almost an intermitted problem. I remebmer getting the error a couple times, then it'd work. weird.