Recently I had to install Crossover Linux which is similar to (and based on)
Wine. I needed to check whether my Windows app was compatible both with Wine and
Crossover.
Having installed Crossover I was surprised to find that both it and Wine are
using Crossover's registry. If I run Wine's regedit.exe and make some
kind of change, then I run Crossover's regedit.exe, the change I just made
is already available in Crossover's registry. If I examine the files
(system.reg) for both apps, I find that Crossover's version has just been
modified whereas Wine's hasn't changed for months.
1) Firstly, is this the expected behaviour?
2) and secondly, given that Crossover can have several registries (one for each
of its 'bottles') how does Wine know which copy to use?