Hello,
Apologies if I'm on the wrong forum, "Devices" seemed more focused on readers, but if there are moderators please relocate me if appropriate.
I want to shift from my old version of Calibre running on my XP laptop to running on my recently-acquired QNAP TS-451 NAS (Intel-based). The NAS supports virtualization, so I believe I have two options:
- Run "native"
- Run within a Linux or Windows VM
Native is worrisome ground for me, unless someone has already blazed the trail. I've learned (or think I've learned) enough about the QTS operating system for the NAS to know its a light-weight Linux, without full tools, not set-up to download latest-and-greatest packages from repositories, etc. I've also gotten a sense that pulling down the wrong bit of incompatible software could break the core NAS and/or QTS functionality. I don't really want to "brick" my NAS!
The mechanism to isolate/protect seems to be packaging up an application into something called a QPKG ... If I'm understanding correctly keeps libraries private and whatever else is necessary to prevent the app from destabilizing QTS. I don't know how to make a QPKG yet, and given my kindergarten Linux skills it could take some time to climb that learning curve.
If anyone has already pursed this and has a QPKG available, I'd appreciate a pointer. Forum search turned up a somewhat dated description of running Calibre native on a Synology NAS, but I didn't find anything for a QNAP.
A VM would seem to protect me from doing harm, at the cost of more overhead. If I take this second option, does anyone have any recommendation for Windows versus Linux, or is Calibre equally capable on either OS? I can pick up a Win7 OEM license inexpensively enough, and there are more Linux distributions than I'll have time to download and test, so any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Alan