diff --git a/src/funkload/Distributed.py b/src/funkload/Distributed.py
index 02ec298b..4dcc31b0 100644
--- a/src/funkload/Distributed.py
+++ b/src/funkload/Distributed.py
@@ -492,11 +492,13 @@ def local_prep_worker(worker):
             worker.execute("mkdir -p %s" % virtual_env)
             worker.put(
                 get_virtualenv_script(),
-                os.path.join(remote_res_dir, "virtualenv.py"))
+                ## os.path.join(remote_res_dir, "virtualenv.py"))
+                os.path.join(remote_res_dir, "tmpvenv.py"))
 
             trace(".")
             worker.execute(
-                "%s virtualenv.py %s" % (
+                # "%s virtualenv.py %s" % (
+                "%s tmpvenv.py %s" % (
                     self.python_bin, os.path.join(remote_res_dir, self.tarred_testsdir)),
                 cwdir=remote_res_dir)
 
diff --git a/src/funkload/PatchWebunit.py b/src/funkload/PatchWebunit.py
index 6936ef3b..61c513d0 100644
--- a/src/funkload/PatchWebunit.py
+++ b/src/funkload/PatchWebunit.py
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ def decodeCookies(url, server, headers, cookies):
         if maxage != '':
             timedelta = int(maxage)
             if timedelta > 0:
-                expire = now + timedelta
+                expire = now + datetime.timedelta(seconds=timedelta)
         else:
             if cookie['expires'] == '':
                 expire = datetime.datetime.max
diff --git a/src/funkload/utils.py b/src/funkload/utils.py
index 0f10288a..1d47b12c 100644
--- a/src/funkload/utils.py
+++ b/src/funkload/utils.py
@@ -317,11 +317,19 @@ def get_virtualenv_script():
     installed in the system. if it doesn't exist returns
     None.
     """
-    pkg = pkg_resources.get_distribution('virtualenv')
-    script_path =  os.path.join( pkg.location, 'virtualenv.py')
+    try:
+        import virtualenv
+    except ImportError:
+        raise ImportError('No module named virtualenv')
 
-    if os.path.isfile( script_path ):
-        return script_path
+    pkg = pkg_resources.get_distribution('virtualenv')
+    output = virtualenv.create_bootstrap_script('import os')
+    fpath = os.path.join(os.path.abspath('/tmp'),'tmpvenv.py')
+    f = open(fpath, 'w').write(output)
+    # script_path =  os.path.join( pkg.location, 'virtualenv.py')
+    
+    if os.path.isfile( fpath ):
+        return fpath
     else:
         return None