Re: RFC: Sharing a wineprefix

2009-09-29 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Paul Chitescu wrote: [...] > What you're proposing here is essentially an overlay file system. [...] > You should also know that any such simplistic approach can fail in > interesting > and hardly to debug ways unless the user's prefix is wiped (which you already > noted) wh

Re: RFC: Sharing a wineprefix

2009-09-26 Thread Vit Hrachovy
Hi Paul, as usual admin of home PC server with few users sharing installed games, I'm really missing feature similar to this in Wine. You've got my vote and should you need testing, I'm glad to help. Regards Hark

Re: RFC: Sharing a wineprefix

2009-09-26 Thread Paul Chitescu
On Saturday 26 September 2009 02:19:53 Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Paul Chitescu wrote: > > Required changes I've identified so far: > >        - The R/W lock to the prefix > >        - wineserver -k as admin should terminate all users' instances > >        - wineserve

Re: RFC: Sharing a wineprefix

2009-09-25 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Paul Chitescu wrote: > Required changes I've identified so far: >        - The R/W lock to the prefix >        - wineserver -k as admin should terminate all users' instances >        - wineserver needs to be able to load Registry hives R/O >        - wineboot needs

Re: RFC: Sharing a wineprefix

2009-09-25 Thread Igor Tarasov
Hi. I've already had an experience of sharing wine prefix and in current condition it's a headache to set up. Once it's up and running it's okay most of time, but for not experienced user such task is way too complicated. So I vote with my both hands for having some handy tool in wine for this ta

RFC: Sharing a wineprefix

2009-09-25 Thread Paul Chitescu
Hi people! I know this has been talked about again and again and no satisfactory solution (generic, safe, somehow simple) has been found for all. This proposal aims to solve a common scenario with minimum of changes in Wine, in particular remaining compatible with existing installations. It doe