Wine as a Windows server

[ScriptBASIC]

Hi Group,

I have a Windows 32 bit client / server environment I would like to run under Wine. It's an accounting package that spawns additional copies of the BASIC language and communicates with the client for the GUI via a TC/IP socket. Database access is via it's built in ODBC driver. The application current runs using Microsoft Sever 2015 and SQL Server via an ODBC connection.

Would it be best to use a 32 bit version of Ubuntu for this to minimize the 32 to 64 translations? Has anyone tried using Wine as a Windows Server replacement before? Any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated.

John Spikowski
Script BASIC open source project manager.
[email protected]

[ScriptBASIC]

Curious if I'm alone on this. It would help in a big way and save me a lot of time if there is hope Wine can act as a Windows server.

[ScriptBASIC]

Can I run multiple wineservers on the same Linux instance allowing me to load level users and keep resources in check?

[dimesio]

You can run multiple wineservers from separate wineprefixes in the same Linux instance.

[ScriptBASIC]

You can run multiple wineservers from separate wineprefixes in the same Linux instance.

Sweet!

I read somewhere that the dev or current release of Wine uses a new memory mapped feature for better task switching and interoperability. (if my memory is valid) Can someone expand on this?