How to run multiple wine versions on same machine?

[Kurtosis]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with Wine 1.1.42 from the repo. Is it possible to also install Wine 1.3 and run them alternatively (eg not at the same time)? I'd like to experiment with Wine 1.3 while leaving 1.1.42 untouched until it gets updated in the repo.

[dimesio]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with Wine 1.1.42 from the repo. Is it possible to also install Wine 1.3 and run them alternatively (eg not at the same time)? I'd like to experiment with Wine 1.3 while leaving 1.1.42 untouched until it gets updated in the repo.

The easiest way would be to leave your 1.1.42 package installed, and build 1.3.0 yourself and run it from the build directory.

[Kurtosis]

Thanks, I figured that would be the way. Only problem is that when I try to kill Wine 1.1.42 services, they seem to automatically restart. Is it okay for those to be running in the background when I'm running Wine 1.3?

The services are:

/usr/local/bin/wineserver
C:\windows\system32\wineboot.exe --init
C:\windows\system32\services.exe
C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe MountMgr

Thanks.

[James McKenzie]

Kurtosis wrote:

Thanks, I figured that would be the way. Only problem is that when I try to kill Wine 1.1.42 services, they seem to automatically restart. Is it okay for those to be running in the background when I'm running Wine 1.3?

The services are:

/usr/local/bin/wineserver
C:\windows\system32\wineboot.exe --init
C:\windows\system32\services.exe
C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe MountMgr

You might have two sessions of wineserver running at the same time
(although that is highly unlikely, it is possible.)

You might want to look at the running processes when you have both Wine
versions running or are you trying to stop one and start another.

Then you might want to try:

/usr/local/bin/wineserver -k

(this kills all of the Wine processes running under a specific
wineserver session and then shuts down wineserver.)

Then start the next wine session for Wine 1.3 from the build directory
(or wherever you put it.)

James McKenzie

[David Gerard]

On 8 August 2010 23:13, Kurtosis <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks, I figured that would be the way.  Only problem is that when I try to kill Wine 1.1.42 services, they seem to automatically restart.  Is it okay for those to be running in the background when I'm running Wine 1.3?

You can have multiple wineserver instances running at the same time,
from the same or different versions of Wine. It can just get
confusing.


- d.

[Kurtosis]

Got it, thanks, much appreciated.

[vitamin]

You can have multiple wineserver instances running at the same time, from the same or different versions of Wine. It can just get confusing.

There is only one restriction - you can only run one wineserver for any particular WINEPREFIX.