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[Mike McCracken <mike.mccracken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, this may be of interest to you if you are working on a Mac OS X system
and using Ubuntu within VirtualBox.

In my experience, flashing the device with phablet-flash is not simple from
within VBox because the VM will drop USB connection when the device
reboots, then phablet-flash will time out.

I decided to try running phablet-flash natively on the OS X host, and it
turns out to work reliably.

I wrote up some notes here:
http://michael-mccracken.net/2013/09/flashing-ubuntu-touch-from-osx/

It's not well tested or official or anything, but so far it seems to work
pretty well for me.

If anyone has questions about how I've been working with Ubuntu touch on a
Mac VM host, I'm happy to answer.

Thanks,
-mike