[cod] COD5 Linux using wine and CLI - My progress so far (not yet working)

Vadim Clyne-Kelly vadimjnr at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 10:53:42 EST 2008 

Has anybody tried running it like a daemon so the gui wont start up?

2008/12/8 Georgecooldude <georgecooldude at gmail.com>

> Donald what OS are you using and what are specs of the machine? Be
> interesting to know.
>
> For those of you wondering I haven't had chance to get my install working
> through a remote X interface yet but will have a go and it later this
> evening once I'm home from the office.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Donald Stephens <
> donald.stephens at activant.com> wrote:
>
>> I grabbed the 1.1.10 wine source this weekend and installed it along with
>> VNC and I was happy to see it start up and run pretty damn well.
>>
>>
>> So yeah Wine and vnc for the win.
>>
>>
>> -Fist
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Terje Tjeldnes [mailto:terje at tjeldnes.no]
>> Sent: Sun 12/7/2008 5:02 PM
>> To: cod at icculus.org
>> Subject: Re: [cod] COD5 Linux using wine and CLI - My progress so far (not
>> yet working)
>>
>>
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I can't for the life of me figure out why you're doing this so
>> complicated. The use of a X system with a lightweight window manager
>> such as fluxbox or Xfce draws negliglable system resources on any
>> hardware worth the electricity it runs on. Save yourself a lot of
>> hassle and just run the server in wine 1.8.x, I'm telling you it works
>> just fine as a temporary solution until Linux binaries are released,
>> even if we have to wait for cod6 next fall.
>>
>> --
>> Terje
>>
>> On 7. des.. 2008, at 23.33, "Christian Gerbrandt"
>> <gerbra at gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > This is not going to work.
>> > If you tunnel X11 to your local machine, you need to have it running
>> > all the
>> > time.
>> > As soon as you close the SSH session, all X11 applications will die.
>> > Thats why you need to run it all from the server, preferable from
>> > some kind
>> > of Windowmanger.
>> > VNC should be sufficent for this.
>> > Or use the method I expplained a little while ago by using NX server.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: |T-OC|Morpheus|:.Web [mailto:morpheus at clantoc.org]
>> > Sent: 07 December 2008 22:07
>> > To: cod at icculus.org
>> > Subject: Re: [cod] COD5 Linux using wine and CLI - My progress so
>> > far (not
>> > yet working)
>> >
>> > Yes, I've seen it, and ESX is not affordable for the minimal use it
>> > will
>> > run. Can anyone that has vmware installed try a comparison vmware vs
>> > wine ? I already have some servers running on the box, and resources
>> > need to be balanced between all of this...
>> >
>> > By the way I will try to run just a x server through ssh, what will
>> > be a
>> > completely new challenge to me (CLI power for years now).
>> >
>> > Georgecooldude a écrit :
>> >> Pretty sure vmware 2.0 is the only free one. ESX server is what you
>> >> have to pay for. vmware server 2.0 is what was formally GSX server.
>> >> It
>> >> sits ontop of an existing OS vs ESX which is a native vmware OS.
>> >>
>> >> I've no luck at all via the CLI so I think the next best thing
>> >> bearing
>> >> in mind I want to keep resource to a minimum and not run a GUI is to
>> >> use X display through SSH. I've never done that before but I'm
>> >> attempting it now, documenting the process and as soon as I get it
>> >> working I'll provide the full instructions.
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Christian Gerbrandt
>> >> <gerbra at gotadsl.co.uk <mailto:gerbra at gotadsl.co.uk>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>    The latest VMware server is 2.0
>> >>
>> >>    The one you are talking about is ESX/ESXi
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    *From:* Harry Rietberg [mailto:harry at rietberg.speedlinq.nl
>> >>    <mailto:harry at rietberg.speedlinq.nl>]
>> >>    *Sent:* 07 December 2008 20:20
>> >>
>> >>    *To:* cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>
>> >>    *Subject:* Re: [cod] COD5 Linux using wine and CLI - My progress
>> >>    so far (not yet working)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    I installed a minimal version of Windows XP on my Vmware machine,
>> >>    took a few minutes...
>> >>
>> >>    When the COD5 Linux version is released I will shutdown the
>> >>    Windows version right away! ;-)
>> >>    For the time being this is a good alternative.
>> >>
>> >>    I didn't try Vmware version 3.0 because version 2.0 works
>> >>    perfectly for me.
>> >>
>> >>    Christian Gerbrandt wrote:
>> >>
>> >>    But that's exactly what most ppl here try to overcome, not use
>> >> Windows
>> > and
>> >>
>> >>    pay for a Windows license.
>> >>
>> >>    As all this is working fine with wine.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    -----Original Message-----
>> >>
>> >>    From: |T-OC|Morpheus|:.Web [mailto:morpheus at clantoc.org]
>> >>
>> >>    Sent: 07 December 2008 20:06
>> >>
>> >>    To: cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>
>> >>
>> >>    Subject: Re: [cod] COD5 Linux using wine and CLI - My progress
>> >> so far
>> > (not
>> >>
>> >>    yet working)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    Yes, but it's not the most difficult to do, don't you think ? ^^
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    Walker a écrit :
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>        Don't it requires a windows install in the virtual machine ?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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Vadim
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