I remember someone else saying that you don't need to copy all the files for a new instance, but I don't think I ever saw a definitive list of what does need to be included, so I've defaulted to just copying everything. Does anyone have a reference or know for sure which files are required?
- Chris/Fleep Chris M. Collins (Avatar: Fleep Tuque) Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM) UCIT Instructional & Research Computing University of Cincinnati 406A Zimmer Hall 315 College Drive PO BOX 210088 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088 [email protected] (513) 556-3018 http://ucsim.uc.edu On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:14 AM, M.E. Verhagen <[email protected]> wrote: > you don't need to make copies of the entire opensim dirs to run different > instances. > > I make a copy of opensim.ini with a different name and give it the > location of the region xml files to use in that file. > And fire up an instance of opensim like this: > > screen -S Zee -d -m mono ./OpenSim.exe -inifile=OpenSimZee.ini > > wich is a 3x3 megaregion wich runs nice along other opensim instances wich > are not megaregions. > > > > 2013/6/21 Fleep Tuque <[email protected]> > >> I don't run Diva Distro, so I don't know if that can be run in grid >> (ROBUST) mode? >> >> If not, then you'll need to go to http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Download and >> download the latest version of opensim and follow the instructions at >> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Configuration#Running_OpenSimulator_in_Grid_mode. >> That page also has some nice diagrams explaining the difference between >> standalone and grid mode. I could be mistaken, but I think Diva Distro can >> only be run in standalone mode.. ? >> >> Though I should say, before doing ANYTHING, make sure you take a good >> backup of your database, and I personally take OAR snapshots of all of my >> regions before I upgrade or test any new configuration. >> >> Regarding "instances", I found it very confusing at first when people >> talked about running simulators in different instances, I didn't understand >> what that meant. Essentially, you copy all your opensim files into another >> directory, edit your regions.ini file in the new directory to only include >> the regions to run on that "instance" (and of course edit your old >> regions.ini file to remove the regions you're going to run on the new >> instance), and then start the opensim.exe process in both the old and the >> new directory. So for FleepGrid, as an example, my file structure looks >> like this: >> >> -opensim_0.7.4 >> - addon-modules >> - bin >> - doc >> - share >> - ThirdParty >> - ThirdPartyLicenses >> - WifiPages >> -opensim2_0.7.4 >> -opensim3_0.7.4 >> -opensim4_0.7.4 >> -opensim5_0.7.4 >> >> In each of those directories, in the /bin/regions.ini file, I have one >> region listed for that "instance", and then to start up the grid, I first >> start ROBUST, then start the opensim.exe process in each of those >> directories. Does that make sense? >> >> Feel free to ask more questions on the list, and if it's any help, I keep >> a change log for FleepGrid with all the details and example ini files etc. >> on my wiki at: http://fleep.wikispaces.com/FleepGrid. >> >> Good luck! >> >> - Chris/Fleep >> >> >> >> Chris M. Collins (Avatar: Fleep Tuque) >> Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM) >> UCIT Instructional & Research Computing >> University of Cincinnati >> 406A Zimmer Hall >> 315 College Drive >> PO BOX 210088 >> Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088 >> [email protected] >> (513) 556-3018 >> >> http://ucsim.uc.edu >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Jessica Pixel <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I am using the diva distro, so maybe I'm not running in grid mode, but >>> standalone with HG enabled? I'm still pretty new at this, so I'm not >>> 100% >>> clear on all of the different setups. How can I know for sure? >>> >>> If I understand correctly, I should be able to set up a second instance >>> of >>> OpenSim, and give it the same details for the database and whatnot as the >>> first instance? Everything is running from the same computer. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> -*-*-*- >>> Jessica Pixel >>> http://liftedpixel.net/pixelplanet >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://opensim-users.2152040.n2.nabble.com/Megaregions-and-normal-regions-together-tp7580156p7580163.html >>> Sent from the opensim-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Opensim-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >> > > > > -- > Groningen en Hannover Opensims: secondlife://meverhagen.nl:8002:Hannover > ZW/ > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >
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