Virtual PC / XP

[HorridRedDog]

Running Win 7 Profesional on a fairly decent computer using a CPU that supports virtualization you can download & install XP (from MS) as a virtual computer. Very easy to do.

Using Calibrre on Win 7 I get;
ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>x_wmi</b>:-0x7ffbefed - OLE error 0x80041013

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\config\device_debug. py", line 41, in debug
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\__init__.py", line 66, in debug
File "site-packages\wmi.py", line 703, in query
File "site-packages\wmi.py", line 189, in handle_com_error
x_wmi: -0x7ffbefed - OLE error 0x80041013

OK I know that there is no real fix for that, but when I run Virtual PC / XP I get;

Version: 0.6.32
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\vid_054c&pid_031e&rev_031a']
Drives detected:
(ID, Partitions, Drive letter)
('IDE\\DISKVIRTUAL_HD_____________________________ _1._1____\\5&35DC7040&0&0.0.0', 0, u'C:\\')
('USBSTOR\\DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS-600&REV_1.00\\0800461000C1EAE0&0', 1, u'E:\\')
('USBSTOR\\DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS-600_LAUNCHER&REV_1.00\\0800461000C1EAE0&3', 4, u'H:\\')
('USBSTOR\\DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS-600_MS&REV_1.00\\0800461000C1EAE0&1', 'No mount points found')
('USBSTOR\\DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS-600_SD&REV_1.00\\0800461000C1EAE0&2', 3, u'G:\\')
Looking for HANLINV3
Looking for HANLINV5
Looking for BLACKBERRY
Looking for CYBOOKG3
Looking for ILIAD
Looking for IREXDR1000
Looking for JETBOOK
Looking for SHINEBOOK
Looking for KINDLE
Looking for KINDLE2
Looking for KINDLE_DX
Looking for NOOK
Looking for PRS505
Looking for PRS700
Looking for PRS500
Looking for ANDROID
Looking for N770
Looking for N810
Looking for CYBOOK_OPUS
Looking for COOL_ER
Looking for ESLICK
Looking for NUUT2
Looking for IRIVER_STORY
Looking for POCKETBOOK360
Looking for GER2
Looking for ITALICA
Looking for ECLICTO
Looking for DBOOK
Looking for BOOX
Looking for EB600
Looking for README
Looking for N516
Devices possibly connected:


The line below "Devices possibly connected:" is not cut off. It's just blank.

Database integrety is ok - no problem.

Is there any hope of running calibre?

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P.S. - Windows Virtual PC mode is at;
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx
if anyones interested. Works REALLY GREAT.

[kovidgoyal]

You can always just use save to disk.

[HorridRedDog]

"Save to disk", "drag and drop" does get the books to the Sony reader. But to use any other type of organization on the reader it seems to be calibre or the truly awful Sony software.

[kovidgoyal]

see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...840#post737840