I know I know - there has been many threads about running LFS servers under Linux and what not, but I would like to know if anybody has managed to get a server running, stable?
Well you've not said what architecture you're using, nor what distro.
I've not packaged anyway, but quite frankly all you do is make sure you've not got any of the X.org development libraries (which you'd have to explicitly say you want to install in most distros) download and extract the latest version of Wine, then configure, make, make install (you need the relevant build tools to do this, under anuy debian derivative just apt-get install build-essentials as root (either by su, authenticating and installing, then dropping out of root, or via using sudo):
wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/wine-1.1.1.tar.bz2 tar xf wine-1.1.1.tar.bz2 cd wine-1.1.1 ./configure make depend make <switch to root, or run the next command via sudo> make install
Now just run LFS (I'd suggest running it in screen, or under nohup):
wine LFS.exe /cfg=path/to/setup.cfg
It'll complain, but it should run fine provided that dedicated=invisible in the cfg. Any problems with the cfg and it'll just crash out. Obviously you'd need to make the relevant alterations to your firewall and stuff.
My suggestion would be to use VirtualBox, Microsoft Virtual Server, VMWare or whatever on your desktop/development machine and setup a low power linux server to test it first
Assuming you're not running a headless server, and you're using a distro which has this level of integration, then yes. I can't think of any hosting/server rental companies that would provide a linux or any unix-like server in that state though.
If you use the ubuntu's package of Wine, then it's kinda to be expected if you're running headless. Their packages are designed for servers running some sort of X server, be it an actual X server, or Xfvb, etc. One reason why I custom compiled my own...
Porting programs --> Meaning that developers can use winelib to build the program to make it cross-architecture. Scawen would need to specifically build LFS dedi with winelib, and code modifications to get it to work.
Linux is wayyy faster then windows on the internet, and seeing as im at only 2mb/s if linux was able to run close to that then that would've been better then crappy windows running nowhere near it.
... Reading, to get that to work, you're still technically emulating a x86 processor using QEmu. So you're still wrong, becuase you're doing the same as if you were to install BOCHS or QEmu and to run a virtual Windows through there.
You said i cant run wine on my ps3 but i could have wine running on my ps3 currently if i wanted. It doesnt matter if its being emulated or such. Because its still running. You never said you wont be able to get wine running on your ps3 without emulators, Therefore im right.
Damn you, you've ruined everything!!!