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

Blutch blutch at blutch.nl
Mon Dec 8 14:41:32 EST 2008


It's a home server in the Netherlands so 70 ms ping from the UK isn't 
that bad ;-)
I normally have a maximum of 14 players online with my bandwidth(1024 
kbps up) but I don't know what it will do with the CPU power...

Georgecooldude wrote:
> Just tried your server. Getting about 70ms pings from the UK. Are you 
> hosting this from home or is the overhead running in wine?
>
> BTW UK - NL have great connecitivty for those of you in 
> americas/apac/africas wondering.
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Blutch <blutch at blutch.nl 
> <mailto:blutch at blutch.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for the hint Donald! First I tried the stable version of
>     Wine(1.0.1) without any luck(segmentation faults). Today I
>     downloaded the beta 1.1.10 version and guess.... it is working!
>     Less CPU power then my other COD5 server in Vmware. The Wine
>     server costs 4% CPU power against 25 % for the Vmware server. The
>     COD5 console is running in a VNC4server configuration with Xfce4
>     as windowsmanager(the Wine COD5 server is online at
>     cod.blutch.nl:28961 <http://cod.blutch.nl:28961>  or www.blutch.nl
>     <http://www.blutch.nl>  so if you like you can try it)
>
>
>     Donald Stephens 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-----
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>                   From: |T-OC|Morpheus|:.Web
>                 [mailto:morpheus at clantoc.org
>                 <mailto:morpheus at clantoc.org>]
>
>                   Sent: 07 December 2008 20:06
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>                   To: cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>
>                 <mailto:cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>>
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>                   Subject: Re: [cod] COD5 Linux using wine and CLI -
>                 My progress so far
>                      
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>             (not
>                
>
>                   yet working)
>
>
>
>                   Yes, but it's not the most difficult to do, don't
>                 you think ? ^^
>
>
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>                   Walker a écrit :
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>
>
>                       Don't it requires a windows install in the
>                 virtual machine ?
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