On 05/21/2013 02:12 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > I was thinking about something this morning, and I'm stumped, so I hope I > can get an answer here.* > > I'm looking for a way to setup a "shared" wine installation. > <snip> > I appreciate the help on this. I'm drawing a blank on how to make this > work right.
Yes it can only be done with various hacks such as what you've already come up with. Before it was canceled by Google, the Linux version of Picasa (which ran under wine) was installed much as you describe. When launched a script populated a local .wine directory (well, .picasa) with the registry files and symlinked drive_c to the picasa install drive_c. This is probably the most secure way to run windows apps in a multi-user environment since the actual program files and system files are not writable to the user, so except for registry problems (which can be solved by simply re-copying them), nothing could be corrupted. As for your other comment about PXE booting, note that Windows itself can be PXE booted and even run diskless with some help from Linux and using iSCSI. Using a Linux server to host the volumes, and by using copy-on-write stuff in LVM, you can do some pretty darn cool stuff, such as roll-backs and snapshotting. I first read about doing this with Windows here: http://kentonsprojects.blogspot.com/2011/12/lan-party-house-technical-design-and.html /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
