wine users - Sep 2008 - single wineserver process on multiple session environment

is it possible to run only one wineserver process on multiple session?

i set up an ubuntu server as terminal server (using xdmcp and/or xrdp), so
multiple user could run their own session on this server (remotely) from other
linux or windows clients. there is one apps that run under wine.
but the number of wineserver process running is the same as the number of users
logged in to this terminal server.

there's no problem with it actually, but i just wondering if i could reduce
the wineserver process running, maybe i could save several hundreds MB of
memory, and speed it up a little bit. :D

tjandracom wrote:
> is it possible to run only one wineserver process on multiple session?
No wineserver does not support that.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:28 AM, tjandracom <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> is it possible to run only one wineserver process on multiple session?
>
> i set up an ubuntu server as terminal server (using xdmcp and/or xrdp), so
multiple user could run their own session on this server (remotely) from other
linux or windows clients. there is one apps that run under wine.
> but the number of wineserver process running is the same as the number of
users logged in to this terminal server.
>
> there's no problem with it actually, but i just wondering if i could
reduce the wineserver process running, maybe i could save several hundreds MB of
memory, and speed it up a little bit. :D
>
You might be able to use some tricks...

Something that allows you to start a central session in which you run
wine, with the user-visible Wine executable set to run Wine in that
session, passing the correct DISPLAY, etc might be possible... It will
be bad for security...

GNU screen might be able to do that... If a user connects, SSH in as
the Wine user, check if the screen exists, if it exists, run Wine in
it (after setting DISPLAY), if not create it and run Wine in it....
Wine should probably be ran in background that the user can disconnect
from the screen that a next user can use it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen

I have not used Screen yet, but this seems like a decent use for it....

Note: The potential method described here are theoretical and was not
tested. It is probably VERY bad for security and stability....

Gert

Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:28 AM, tjandracom <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > is it possible to run only one wineserver process on multiple session?
> > 
> > i set up an ubuntu server as terminal server (using xdmcp and/or
xrdp), so multiple user could run their own session on this server (remotely)
from other linux or windows clients. there is one apps that run under wine.
> > but the number of wineserver process running is the same as the number
of users logged in to this terminal server.
> > 
> > there's no problem with it actually, but i just wondering if i
could reduce the wineserver process running, maybe i could save several hundreds
MB of memory, and speed it up a little bit. :D
> > 
> > 
> 
> You might be able to use some tricks...
> 
> Something that allows you to start a central session in which you run
> wine, with the user-visible Wine executable set to run Wine in that
> session, passing the correct DISPLAY, etc might be possible... It will
> be bad for security...

No, wineserver supports only one DISPLAY at a time.

vitamin wrote:
> No, wineserver supports only one DISPLAY at a time.

well... i can live with that.   :D 
thanks for the answers.