Re: Keep wine resident

On 28 February 2016 at 21:01, Seth Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to instruct wine to stick around after a program has run? =
Alternatively, is there a way to =E2=80=9Cboot=E2=80=9D a wine prefix and k=
eep it running?
>
> As part of a project to port some windows software to linux, I am using w=
ine to run a windows-only command line utility in a loop. Running it via wi=
ne it works just fine, however, calling it in a loop is extremely slow.
>
> It seems that the wine =E2=80=9Cboots=E2=80=9D when the program is called=
, then shuts down immediately after. This takes a few seconds every time th=
e program is called. Unfortunately I need to call this program many thousan=
ds of times, so those extra seconds add up to hours.
>
> I=E2=80=99ve discovered that if I run a wine GUI application before runni=
ng the program (such as winecfg, notepad, etc.) beforehand, the startup tim=
e is eliminated. That solution is a bit awkward, as this program is being r=
un in a cluster computing environment (on dozens of headless nodes).
>
> The ideal solution would be a command line switch to wine or a service th=
at could be run when the node boots. I did try wineserver -p, but that had =
no effect on startup time (I=E2=80=99m not sure what wine server does).
>
> Any thoughts?

WINE is not a VM. It doesn't boot as such.

It's an API translator. But yes, it has to load. All programs do.

Multiple apps can share a single instance, though.

Perhaps a background command-line task doing nothing very important --
such as a heartbeat indicator of some form, such as a task that
periodically adds a line to a logfile -- might achieve what you want.

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