I think I got a fix for the timer problems in BeOS running in vmware. It still has this ugly and slow grayscale video, but at least it's usable, even on my K6-2 350, and the clock isn't funky anymore (and the processes behave better also :)), it looks quite accurate for what I saw (drift of a second on several minutes, didn't expect that precision =). This is good news for some people who are forced to run Linux or Win and still want to help :) If someone is willing to betatest, mail me privately. François.