donovanglover / sakaya

Run native wine applications inside declarative systemd-nspawn containers with NixOS.

sakaya

Run native wine applications inside declarative systemd-nspawn containers. sakaya functions as a replacement for wine on the host. Works well with NixOS.

Features

• Start multiple wine applications that can interact with each other inside sandboxed systemd-nspawn containers
• Automatically open 32/64-bit wine prefixes based on the executable
• Pass-through /dri for native GPU performance inside containers
• Prevent sandboxed applications from accessing the internet

Installation

NixOS (Recommended)

Add sakaya to your systemPackages and rebuild.

{ pkgs, ... }:

{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    sakaya
  ];
}

Other distributions

Follow the install guide for Rust. Then, use cargo to install sakaya.

cargo install --git https://github.com/donovanglover/sakaya --tag 0.1.0

Setup

In order to use sakaya, you must first create a nixos-container running the sakaya server.

See containers/default.nix in my nix-config for an example.

Usage

Usage: sakaya [OPTIONS] [FILE] [COMMAND]

Commands:
  server  Start a sakaya server instead of a client
  help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Arguments:
  [FILE]  Path to the executable to run

Options:
  -a, --address <ADDRESS>      Address of the server to request [default: 192.168.100.49:39493]
  -d, --directory <DIRECTORY>  Host directory mounted to /mnt inside the container [default: /home/user/containers/wine]
  -w, --wine32 <WINE32>        $WINEPREFIX for 32-bit applications (i386) [default: /mnt/wine32]
  -W, --wine64 <WINE64>        $WINEPREFIX for 64-bit applications (amd64) [default: /mnt/wine64]
  -h, --help                   Print help
  -V, --version                Print version

Contributing

sakaya should be bug free, however contributions are welcome. Although NixOS has first-class support, it should be possible to use sakaya with other distributions as well.

Todo

• Reduce compile times
• Notify user if sakaya fails to start an executable
• Choose 32/64-bit automatically based on IMAGE_FILE_32BIT_MACHINE in the file headers
• Automatically run winetricks with sane defaults if prefix does not exist already
• Get .ico and convert to .png? Handle abrupt end of files?
• Write tests
• Terminate sakaya if the server/container cannot be reached
• Create NixOS module to automate systemd service setup for sakaya server
• Automatically register sakaya to executables
• Update format of README