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

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Mon Dec 8 10:56:47 EST 2008


you can't do that!

Vadim Clyne-Kelly ha scritto:
> Has anybody tried running it like a daemon so the gui wont start up?
>
> 2008/12/8 Georgecooldude <georgecooldude at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto:terje at tjeldnes.no>]
>         Sent: Sun 12/7/2008 5:02 PM
>         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)
>
>
>
>         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 <mailto: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
>         <mailto:morpheus at clantoc.org>]
>         > Sent: 07 December 2008 22:07
>         > 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, 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>
>         <mailto: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>
>         >>    <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>
>         <mailto: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
>         <mailto:morpheus at clantoc.org>]
>         >>
>         >>    Sent: 07 December 2008 20:06
>         >>
>         >>    To: cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>
>         <mailto: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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