Now I remember having that 'uhuh' moment when thinking about your 1.5gb recommodation. It's because of the ubunto os having that much larger overhead then bare notfred's. With that I allocate 768 to the entire vm and it gives me more from that for the folding client ( or does that server edition have a bare shell when you first configure it? ).

Btw, 2 eue's just yet on the vm's same one each time, not enough memory. Going to try 1gb now, don't want to loose to much. I set the vm on the xp box up with 768 also but no advmethods ( it's still doing an a2 wu and I hope it doesn't chocke! ).

Odd that the wu's got completed without that memory problem before now, same project range