wine users - Mar 2008 - Re : noob question :)

Wine changes dozens of files to run properly.
Last week a user couldnt login anymore his Windows  XP after doing that.

Btw, as you say world of warcraft doesnt use registry and is well known to work
on wine too
by copying the whole directory.
I suggest you to do that.

Its just a few megabytes of disk space versus a possibly unusable windows xp.
 
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----- Message d'origine ----
> De : yo <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
> ? : wine-users at winehq.org
> Envoy? le : Jeudi, 6 Mars 2008, 17h49mn 42s
> Objet : [Wine]  noob question :)
> 
> hi all, im starting in the linux world !!
> 
> so this is my question :
> 
> i wanna run  1app that is installed in my windows partition.
> 
> the app im refering is  world of warcraft, this game does not have any
entry in
> the windows registry (on windows machines you can copy the wow folder from
one
> hd to another hd on other computer and play without reinstall)
> 
> so i think it must be possible to run the game without installing it in the
wine
> virtual c.
> 
> so is this possible or must i install all the game for wine.
> 
> thx in advance for the replyes ppl.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Wine changes dozens of files to run properly.
> Last week a user couldnt login anymore his Windows  XP after doing that.
> 

By default, Wine doesn't change files on your Windows partition.  In fact,
unless you explicitly tell it to use something other than ~/.wine/drive_c it
won't.

The FAQ topic "Can I run applications directly off of a Windows
installation without reinstalling them?" could have saved this individual. 
It recommends that you "leave your Windows installation alone."

Unless you understand some specifics about how Wine works and how your
application works, it's sound advice to do just that.  Leave your Windows
installation alone.

The only justifiable exception I've found is centered around sharing data
files for which the application itself cannot be configured to look elsewhere
for.  In this case symlinking the data or using a synchronization script may
work.  This however implies some understanding of how the application stores
data.  Even in this scenario, it's still likely best to install the
application twice (once in Windows, once in Wine, and in two locations).