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

Vadim Clyne-Kelly vadimjnr at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 11:38:05 EST 2008 

Could try to run it under xvfb.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6240859#post6240859. That guy seem
2 have accomplishes what we want to do but with another program.. ill fire
up a VM later and give this a go.

2008/12/8 Christian Gerbrandt <gerbra at gotadsl.co.uk>

>  I'm working on a solution to have it running without X11.
>
> But I never setup a CodWW server.
>
> Can anybody provide me with a basic server .cfg and commandline to start a
> server for testing?
>
>
>
> *From:* evolutioncrazy at gmail.com [mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 08 December 2008 15:57
>
> *To:* cod at icculus.org
> *Subject:* Re: [cod] COD5 Linux using wine and CLI - My progress so far
> (not yet working)
>
>
>
> 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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