Hive In Wine

22karthikreddy · Post by **22karthikreddy** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:49 am

Hey,
In windows we have a concept of "hive" in the registry. I'm trying to load the hive to wine registry, but wine is not able to recognizing the format of hive. Please help me out.

Thanks,
karthik

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:24 am

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM, 22karthikreddy
<[email protected]> wrote:

Hey,
In windows we have a concept of "hive" in the registry. I'm trying to load the hive to wine registry, but wine is not able to recognizing the format of hive. Please help me out.

I am not sure what hive you are trying to load as this probably will
mess up your ~/.wine but you can export registry hives in windows in
NT4 format which is text. I believe this is the same format wine uses
in its registry files.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:58 pm

22karthikreddy wrote:I'm trying to load the hive to wine registry, but wine is not able to recognizing the format of hive.

Wine does not support native binary registry format. In other words - Wine can't do what you want.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:35 pm

vitamin <[email protected]> at: Dec 16, 2008 12:58 PM (MST) wrote about: [Wine] Re: Hive In Wine

22karthikreddy wrote:
I'm trying to load the hive to wine registry, but wine is not able to recognizing the format of hive.
Wine does not support native binary registry format. In other words - Wine can't do what you want.

Vitamin, you are absolutely correct. However, I think at Karthy wants to load the ENTIRE hive, which will break Wine absolutely.

Karthy: Give use more details on what you are trying to do and why you are attempting it. It appears that you are attempting to get something to work and your progress and attempts appear to be 'most interesting'.

James Mckenzie

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:25 pm

James Mckenzie wrote:Vitamin, you are absolutely correct. However, I think at Karthy wants to load the ENTIRE hive, which will break Wine absolutely.

Then he needs to be much more specific. "Load hive" is a standard function in native regedit since win9x. Of course regedit doesn't load hive itself - it calls advapi/ntdll for that.