On Wed February 14 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: > Oppps....sorry.... I responded without out looking at the name. You are > not the OP. :-) Duh... yeah - I just chalked it up to green tea or a typhoon '-) I'd say your hypothesis is the most probable - system ram and vm ram, but I just added to your hypothesis, because I've been doing a lot of experimenting with vmware recently, also on FC6, but on my desktops. I do have vm's running on my laptop as well, without issue, but it's a 3.0 GHz P4 with 1.5 GB of ram - not your usual lappy -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA