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

Georgecooldude georgecooldude at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 14:42:54 EST 2008


I get 50ms round trip. I guess my ISP doesn't have great links to yours.

Excluding my round trip the response time of your server is real nice. :)

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Blutch <blutch at blutch.nl> wrote:

> 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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