Anything over 1 gig of ram for the client should be ok for any folding project so 1.5 gig for each VMware appliance should be good as well.

I have suffered a major setback on creating the VMware guide I was updating my computer OS Monday and some how it went wrong and I need to do a fresh install I will not have time to do that till this weekend prior to doing the fresh install I need to save all the files off my old install so that I can recover them about 150gb of files which will have to be transferred to my NAS using nfs at about 10-12 gb/hour. I tried recovering the OS last night but all I can do is get in on the recovery console no Xserver/Desktop at least the data files are still intact so I should be able with time to recover most everything. I am going to setup the file transfer tonight which should be done by the time I get home from work on Thursday then I can download the new Ubuntu install cd and prep the drive for the install. This is really killing my folding production the loss of my GPU2 client and almost 5k ppd per day really hurts on a small folder like me. If the OS install and GPU2 client setup go good on this weekend I will try to get some of the work done on the VMware guide I have my fingers crossed that I do not run into any more problems.