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Mark Rehorst · 04-25-2011, 11:15 PM

If you install VirtualBox (OSE version works fine), you can then install and run Windows (or any other OS) in a virtual machine and get full functionality from Calibre and its plugins. If you can install and run linux, you can install VirtualBox- it's pretty easy- just use Synaptic to DL and install it. Once VirtualBox is installed you set up a virtual machine and install Windows, then with the Windows virtual machine running (you get a standard windows desktop and menu system, just as if you were running Windows because you are), install Calibre and the plugins. Windows running in a VM will be able to access the web and the CDROM drive. If you want to access the USB ports (and some other hardware) from the VM you'll have to install the non OSE version of VirtualBox.

04-25-2011, 11:15 PM	#8
Mark Rehorst was engr, now dentist Posts: 143 Karma: 18558 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Riverside, Ca Device: Kindle DXG	Try virtualbox If you install VirtualBox (OSE version works fine), you can then install and run Windows (or any other OS) in a virtual machine and get full functionality from Calibre and its plugins. If you can install and run linux, you can install VirtualBox- it's pretty easy- just use Synaptic to DL and install it. Once VirtualBox is installed you set up a virtual machine and install Windows, then with the Windows virtual machine running (you get a standard windows desktop and menu system, just as if you were running Windows because you are), install Calibre and the plugins. Windows running in a VM will be able to access the web and the CDROM drive. If you want to access the USB ports (and some other hardware) from the VM you'll have to install the non OSE version of VirtualBox.