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

Björn buggyland at web.de
Mon Dec 8 14:56:36 EST 2008


Hello i am Buggy,
i want to make a HOWTO for COD5 Gameserver on a linux maschine (Debian) with 
wine.
Can somebody make a summary?
mfg, Buggy

www.uw-gaming.de
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blutch" <blutch at blutch.nl>
To: <cod at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [cod] COD5 Linux using wine and CLI - My progress so far (not 
yet working)


> 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  or 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]
>> 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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