[Vm-dev] [Pharo-users] Running headless on Windows

[Nicolas Cellier]

Hi torsten,
Did  you open an issue on opensmalltalk vm?
What are the symptoms?

Le 29 déc. 2017 12:23, "phil at highoctane.be" <phil at highoctane.be> a écrit :

>
> I am using nssm because the service option is broken.
>
> The code seems to still be in the image but disabled (there are quite a
> few things like that actually).
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Torsten Bergmann <astares at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, (cross posting vm-dev)
>>
>> nssm is nice - but requires additional tools.
>>
>> Since the days of Squeak the windows VM had the
>>
>>  -service "ServiceName"
>>
>> option and one was able to run Squeak as a windows service out of the box.
>>
>> See http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/105 for details.
>>
>> This option allows to register/deregister with the windows service
>> manager and run
>> a headless image.
>>
>> I run a Squeak Wiki (Swiki/Comanche) since years with this and it is very
>> nice and stable.
>>
>> Unfortunately this is broken in recent Pharo VMs and so far Esteban or
>> others did not
>> have the time to look into this issue. Would be really nice if this
>> option could
>> be recovered in 2018. So one could easily deploy and run Seaside or
>> Teapot/Tealight
>> or Zinc/WebClient based web services on Windows.
>>
>> If we want to deploy Smalltalk based web applications or services on
>> Windows we
>> should support that. It will keep Windows administrators happy and we
>> would integrate with
>> the whole ecosystem (for instance you can start/stop a service using
>> Windows scripting for
>> doing backups, etc.) right out of the box.
>>
>> Bye
>> T.
>>
>>
>>
>> Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Dezember 2017 um 11:36 Uhr
>> Von: "phil at highoctane.be" <phil at highoctane.be>
>> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users at lists.pharo.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] Running headless on Windows
>>
>> If you want to run Pharo as a service, I have found nssm to be working
>> well.
>>  https://nssm.cc
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> On Dec 29, 2017 09:25, "Nicolai Hess" <nicolaihess at gmail.com[mailto:
>> nicolaihess at gmail.com]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2017-12-29 3:07 GMT+01:00 Andrei Stebakov <lispercat at gmail.com[mailto:li
>> spercat at gmail.com]>:
>> Pierce, I tried all of those "no display" options, the result is the same
>>
>>
>> On Dec 28, 2017 8:37 PM, "Pierce Ng" <pierce at samadhiweb.com[mailto:
>> pierce at samadhiweb.com]> wrote:On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 04:58:39PM +0100,
>> Cyril Ferlicot D. wrote:
>> > On 12/27/2017 04:39 PM, Andrei Stebakov wrote:
>> > > When I run Pharo 6.1 with -- headless option on Windows, it executes
>> the
>> > > eval command as expected but during the execution (which lasts 4 sec)
>> it
>> > > opens the Pharo GUI.
>> > > Is it expected? I thought headless means that the whole execution
>> would
>> > > happen in the background
>> >
>> > I think that currently Pharo does not have a "real" headless. But I
>> > heard there was work on that part for Pharo 7.
>>
>> I know OP is talking about Windows...  I've been running server
>> applications on
>> Linux without X11 with -vm-display-null and in-image RFBServer for access
>> to
>> Pharo over VNC. This works very well for me.
>>
>> I believe "real" headless means GUI is not run at all and therefore does
>> not
>> consume CPU cycles, which is very welcome. Meanwhile, maybe
>> -vm-display-null
>> works on Windows for scripting purposes?
>>
>> Pierce
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Andrei,
>>
>> can you try this:
>>
>> Open Pharo normal (no headless option).
>> Change the window size to "not-maximized" (eve if it is actually not
>> maximized, maximize it ones and change it back to "not-maximized")
>> Save and quit the image.
>>
>> After that, a call like
>>
>> pharo --headless pharo.image eval "DateAndTime now"
>> will write the output to the stdout file, without opening a window.
>>
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