o3bvv / Wine-deamonizer

Run Windows processes under Wine as Unix daemons.

Wine deamonizer

Run Windows processes under Wine as Unix daemons.

Installation

Via PyPI:

pip install wine-deamonizer

As an Ubuntu package:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:il2horus/ppa
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install python-wine-deamonizer

Dependencies

You must have Wine to be installed to make this thing to work. Installation itself does not require any dependencies.

Features

Available commands for daemon:

1. start - start daemon (you can make a starter to block with timeout to wait for daemon to start and load);
2. stop - stop daemon;
3. status - get current status of daemon;
4. restart - restart (stop and start) daemon.

Usage

Import WineDaemon class:

from wine_deamonizer import WineDaemon

Create daemon's instance passing exe_path parameter as the path to Windows' executable file:

exe_path = "/path/to/some/windows/program.exe"
daemon = WineDaemon(exe_path)

You can pass a timeout (fraction of seconds) for the deamon to start as well (30 seconds by default):

daemon = WineDaemon(exe_path, timeout=45.0)

Run some command by calling daemon with command's name as string parameter ( it can be easy to pass a command-line argument to the daemon):

daemon('status')
# Daemon is not running.

daemon('stop')
# pidfile '/path/to/some/windows/program.pid' does not exist. Daemon not running?

daemon('start')

daemon('status')
# Daemon is running (pid=11192).

daemon('start')
# pidfile '/path/to/some/windows/program.pid' already exist. Daemon already running?

daemon('stop')

daemon('status')
# Daemon is not running.

You may override post_start method to perform some actions (maybe to wait and make sure your service is ready to go). This method will block calling process, so try to leave it as soon as you can. If the parent will be blocked for the time longer then specified by the timeout, it will exit with error. You can modify timeout's value as described above, though.

One more thing you can do is to override run method. It is called after your daemon has successfully started and the parent process has went away. By default this method waits for the Wine subprocess to finish. It is accessable via self.process attribute within the method. Do not forget to wait subprocess or to call superclass' run method. Otherwise your daemon will exit, delete pid file and leave orphan subprocess alone.

Look through an examples directory for more examples.