Have gotten Parallels running pretty good with WinXP as guest operating system under Suse 10.0. Ran into a few hitches that I got solved. 1. When starting the VM, I get the following error: Mentioned this in earlier post) Parallels Workstation encountered a problem with the /dev/rtc device. This may be caused by one of the following reasons: (1) you do not have proper system permissions, (2) the device is not found in your host PC, (3) the device is used by another process. The absence of /dev/rtc device may downgrade VM performance and make internal timers slow. SOLUTION from Shawn Parr on the parallels forum: Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules In there do a search for rtc, and add: MODE="666" It will look like this after editing: KERNEL="rtc" GROUP="audio", MODE;"666" 2 If you install a flexlm program for dongle licensing, the virtual machine will crash, even when rebooting. Set acceleration from "High" to "Normal" Parallels is working on fixing this problem. 3. I was getting an error in the /var/log/messages file about CPUFREQD_MODULES needing to be set for speedstep_ich. I edited /etc/sysconfig/powersave/cpufreq and changed CPUFREQD_MODULES="" to CPUFREQD_MODULES="speedstep_ich" No more error. (This is for inspiron 8500 with P4-M processor. This may change according to your processor.) 4. One other open issue which parallels is working on to fix is that it cannot connect to USB devices and it only connects to upto 2 devices with USB 1.1 protocal. Work around for that is to share the USB hardrive or printer in Linux with Samba Server, and then it will show up in Windows network and you can map the drives that way. 5. I had one complaint about it otherwise that was finally solved. When moving the mouse from windows, you had to press ctrl+alt to release the mouse back to Linux. I installed the ParallelsTools in windows which replaces the original video, mouse, and network drivers with new one. This allows what they call mouse syncronization. Now I can go from windows virtual macine window to linux with the ctrl+alt. Otherwise, WinXP is operating at close to native speed untill I install Etrust firewall and virus program which really slows it down. I Uninstalled the firewall and virus program and configured the network for host only networking. Can't get to the internet with XP, but don't really need to as I can use Linux for that. When I installed Linux, I created a 2GB fat32 partition for file transfers, but don't really need that now. I think I will resize that to a 10GB partition and put the winXP virtual machine on it now that I know how to do it. I can copy the present virtual machine disk to that partition without having to do a reinstall, in theory anyhow. Last thing to do is with the WiFi, but have the info from Jon van Kan. This is not really critical for me at this time anyhow, but do want to get it to operate. Art