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

Georgecooldude georgecooldude at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 11:02:54 EST 2008 

I tried. Its listed in the very first mail. I ran into aload of errors. It
does seem it needs a gui.

X tunnel seems the most effective way as the server doesn't need a gui like
kde in the background.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:56 PM, evolutioncrazy at gmail.com <
evolutioncrazy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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>
>
>> 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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