A couple of years ago a friend of mine bought me a Mustek parallel port scanner. Using this scanner has locked me into Windows (95/98 & NT). The other day I tried using VMWare and set up my 1st parallel port as /dev/parport0 (I do have a /dev/lp1) and installed Win98 and the scanner software in the virtual Win machine--no problems. When I scanned a picture, straight lines were pixilated & weird. Overall quality was poor. When I scanned the same photo of Tux using native Win98, the picture was sharp and clear. Anybody know why running a VMWare Win98 and scanning would produce somewhat corrupted results rather than running it in native mode? Could this apply to other things as well, such as data on a hard drive? Mark