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Main => Technical Support => Topic started by: monsterer on September 04, 2015, 08:41:05 am

Title: Multiple wallets, same chain?
Post by: monsterer on September 04, 2015, 08:41:05 am
Has anyone managed to get two bitshares wallets running on one machine?

Is it possible at all?

Can you have them share the same chain?
Title: Re: Multiple wallets, same chain?
Post by: xeroc on September 04, 2015, 08:52:47 am
At least in BTS0.9 that is quite easy .. you can call

wallet_create mywallet

to create another wallet and switch between wallets with

open default
open mywallet

however, the GUI does not support this feature and opens "default" by default :)
Title: Re: Multiple wallets, same chain?
Post by: monsterer on September 04, 2015, 09:02:04 am
At least in BTS0.9 that is quite easy .. you can call

wallet_create mywallet

to create another wallet and switch between wallets with

open default
open mywallet

however, the GUI does not support this feature and opens "default" by default :)

Oh of course... :) But I guess there isn't a way to have them both working at the same time?
Title: Re: Multiple wallets, same chain?
Post by: liondani on September 04, 2015, 09:39:17 am
however, the GUI does not support this feature and opens "default" by default :)

It should be very easy to support this future. Hope on Graphene they will.
Title: Re: Multiple wallets, same chain?
Post by: pc on September 04, 2015, 10:47:58 am
Has anyone managed to get two bitshares wallets running on one machine?

Is it possible at all?

Can you have them share the same chain?

Haven't tried, but it should be possible to run several instances of the CLI client with different --data-dir options.

But I think it's unlikely that they can share the same chain database.
Title: Re: Multiple wallets, same chain?
Post by: Riverhead on September 04, 2015, 11:07:05 am
Has anyone managed to get two bitshares wallets running on one machine?

Is it possible at all?

Can you have them share the same chain?

Haven't tried, but it should be possible to run several instances of the CLI client with different --data-dir options.

But I think it's unlikely that they can share the same chain database.

Correct. If you try to open two 0.9.x wallets on the same data directory the second one will be blocked by the LOCK files.

On Graphene however since the cli_wallet is light by default it is quite simple and the intended mode of operation.