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Old 09-25-2018, 06:20 PM   #64
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I'm sure there has been some discussion in the calibre sub forum on this and I believe that it doesn't work; Chrome OS does not make available all the apis required for calibre.
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I tried calibre on a Chromebook/Linux and ran into the same issues mentioned in the calibre forum -- the sysfs file system is not setup to allow USB passthrough support for the crostini VM. There are comments on chromium.org, see Enable USB emulation in crosvm and hopefully, there will be a fix some time soon.
Well that's the end of that then. (At least for now.) So "Containers" on a Chromebook are just VMs? That means that a limited Chromebook would probably run Linux at a snail's pace anyhow.

Thanks for the information.
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