Re : noob question :)

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Wine changes dozens of files to run properly.
Last week a user couldnt login anymore his Windows XP after doing that.

Btw, as you say world of warcraft doesnt use registry and is well known to work on wine too
by copying the whole directory.
I suggest you to do that.

Its just a few megabytes of disk space versus a possibly unusable windows xp.

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De : yo <[email protected]>
À : [email protected]
Envoyé le : Jeudi, 6 Mars 2008, 17h49mn 42s
Objet : [Wine] noob question

hi all, im starting in the linux world !!

so this is my question :

i wanna run 1app that is installed in my windows partition.

the app im refering is world of warcraft, this game does not have any entry in
the windows registry (on windows machines you can copy the wow folder from one
hd to another hd on other computer and play without reinstall)

so i think it must be possible to run the game without installing it in the wine
virtual c.

so is this possible or must i install all the game for wine.

thx in advance for the replyes ppl.

[Jim]

Wine changes dozens of files to run properly.
Last week a user couldnt login anymore his Windows XP after doing that.

By default, Wine doesn't change files on your Windows partition. In fact, unless you explicitly tell it to use something other than ~/.wine/drive_c it won't.

The FAQ topic "Can I run applications directly off of a Windows installation without reinstalling them?" could have saved this individual. It recommends that you "leave your Windows installation alone."

Unless you understand some specifics about how Wine works and how your application works, it's sound advice to do just that. Leave your Windows installation alone.

The only justifiable exception I've found is centered around sharing data files for which the application itself cannot be configured to look elsewhere for. In this case symlinking the data or using a synchronization script may work. This however implies some understanding of how the application stores data. Even in this scenario, it's still likely best to install the application twice (once in Windows, once in Wine, and in two locations).