wine on RAM?

[vajorie]

Hi,
Is there a way to run wine in RAM only using tmpfs? kinda like a portable application running from a flash disk?
I have a slow harddisk, and to alleviate the issue, I run Firefox Portable thru wine from RAM. However, I think wine running locally is causing slow downs when a few tabs are open etc.
Thanks

[James McKenzie]

vajorie wrote:

Hi,
Is there a way to run wine in RAM only using tmpfs? kinda like a portable application running from a flash disk?
I have a slow harddisk, and to alleviate the issue, I run Firefox Portable thru wine from RAM. However, I think wine running locally is causing slow downs when a few tabs are open etc.

You might want to look and see if there is a portable version of Wine.

James McKenzie

[IneedAname]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:51:47 -0600
"vajorie" <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
Is there a way to run wine in RAM only using tmpfs? kinda like a portable application running from a flash disk?
I have a slow harddisk, and to alleviate the issue, I run Firefox Portable thru wine from RAM. However, I think wine running locally is causing slow downs when a few tabs are open etc.
Thanks

This is all from my very bad memory please take it with a hand full of salt.
I think you could move your swap to your flash drive but the write times will be longer but with faster read time (I think).
This whole thing is not covered by wine.
This is not be the right place to ask for help for doing that.

You know the is a linux version of firefox?

[vajorie]

The only version of firefox that I knew would *not* call libraries in my harddisk was the portable one. but of course, *that* is being invoked by wine, which is in my hard drive, so I'm stuck again )

my pc doesn't use swap. but accessing files on disk (iowait?) takes long... so if I can take the wine+firefox group and put it on RAM, I'd be good to go.

and where else would I ask how to get wine into RAM if not in the wine forums lol

or firefox-linux, but I doubt that even can be done. I should ask them that as well I guess.

[IneedAname]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:21:40 -0600
"vajorie" <[email protected]> wrote:

The only version of firefox that I knew would call to libraries in my harddisk was the portable one. but of course, *that* is being invoked by wine, which is in my hard drive, so I'm stuck again )

my pc doesn't use swap. but accessing files on disk (iowait?) takes long... so if I can take the wine+firefox group and put it on RAM, I'd be good to go.

and where else would I ask how to get wine into RAM if not in the wine forums lol

Google is your friend.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cl ... arch&meta=

[vajorie]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:21:40 -0600
"vajorie" <[email protected]> wrote:

The only version of firefox that I knew would call to libraries in my harddisk was the portable one. but of course, *that* is being invoked by wine, which is in my hard drive, so I'm stuck again )

my pc doesn't use swap. but accessing files on disk (iowait?) takes long... so if I can take the wine+firefox group and put it on RAM, I'd be good to go.

and where else would I ask how to get wine into RAM if not in the wine forums lol

Google is your friend.


http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cl ... arch&meta=

I'm using tmpfs (same logic - a directory in RAM). But I don't know how to throw everything that wine uses (and wine itself) into that directory...

I guess this should have been the question of my first post, but I'm bad at asking clear questions ))

so, the clear question qould be, now, "I have created a tmpfs directory in my home directory. how do I throw wine and all its libraries and everything else it uses into that directory so that all wine uses is the files in that directory?"

sorry about that.

[vitamin]

so, the clear question qould be, now, "I have created a tmpfs directory in my home directory. how do I throw wine and all its libraries and everything else it uses into that directory so that all wine uses is the files in that directory?"

Set WINEPREFIX to point inside that directory. 'man wine' for more details.

[vajorie]

but aren't the libraries it calls (and the binary itself) etc in my hard disk? how do I move wine itself to a directory where it can run in a self-contained form, like firefox portable would if it wasn't using wine to run?

[vitamin]

but aren't the libraries it calls (and the binary itself) etc in my hard disk?

Wine itself can be anywhere. You can install it anywhere you want to.

[IneedAname]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:04:45 -0600
"vajorie" <[email protected]> wrote:

so, the clear question qould be, now, "I have created a tmpfs directory in my home directory. how do I throw wine and all its libraries and everything into that directory so that all wine uses is the files in that directory?"

Right, you want to install wine into your ram disk.

You need to build wine your self fetch the source and run this:
./configure --prefix="/path/to/the/place/you/have/your/ramdisk/mounted"
before you use "make"

Then when you run wine use:
env WINEPREFIX="/path/to/the/place/you/have/your/ramdisk/mounted/myprefix" "/path/to/the/place/you/have/your/ramdisk/mounted/bin/wine" "(PROGRAM PATH)"

By the way you will need to dump your ramdisk to your hard drive before you shutdown or you lost it all. but I'm sure you new that.

[vajorie]

thanks a lot. I'll try it as soon as I can!

[vajorie]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:04:45 -0600
"vajorie" <[email protected]> wrote:

so, the clear question qould be, now, "I have created a tmpfs directory in my home directory. how do I throw wine and all its libraries and everything into that directory so that all wine uses is the files in that directory?"

Right, you want to install wine into your ram disk.

You need to build wine your self fetch the source and run this:
./configure --prefix="/path/to/the/place/you/have/your/ramdisk/mounted"
before you use "make"

Then when you run wine use:
env WINEPREFIX="/path/to/the/place/you/have/your/ramdisk/mounted/myprefix" "/path/to/the/place/you/have/your/ramdisk/mounted/bin/wine" "(PROGRAM PATH)"

By the way you will need to dump your ramdisk to your hard drive before you shutdown or you lost it all. but I'm sure you new that.

that worked nicely. thanks again. but there is no speed improvement.

bah, at least I learned something new