[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-----
>
> 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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