Wow! Very clear concise explanation, Fred; it answers almost all the questions I was about to ask! :)
Is this a good list to keep asking about Dreamgrid, or does it have its own list? On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, at 10:55 PM, Fred Beckhusen wrote: > > On 2019-01-09 3:50 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Diva Distro does not work for me-alternatives please (Timeka Cobb) > > > > Hi Timeka! Dreamgrid has Diva Wifi in it, with customizable Black and > White themes now. It's not Linux-ey, but Dreamgrid does run on all > Windows boxes including 7, 8, and 10 and all server products. It just > uses RAM and cores and some disk space, and not much else. Dreamgrid > is Dot Net 'wrapper' that runs tests on the network and then edits the > INI files. One click of Start then launches stock Mysql, Robust and > Opensim. > > If you need a higher level overview than all this detail, the OSCC2018 > presentation is at https://www.outworldz.com/secondlife/OSCC/ and a 20 > minute Youtube video of me yacking is at > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrDxpzI7Gsk > > Dreamgrid is 100% stock Opensim internally. You could just extract it > on any Windows box and run Opensim/bin/opensim.exe as-is. If so, you > would need to do a few edits to INi files. Dreamgrid is designed to > automated this and make it very easy to do. Its overall still very > complex as there is a lot of stuff there, but you can still start a new > grid in two clicks. > > You can download the zip file, or run the simple installer, then edit > the usual INI files by hand. Or run Dreamgrid once to make a working > config, alter it the way you like, and if you still want to roll your > own, run it from a DOS prompt after that. There is a DOS command > included (startmanually.bat) to launch Mysql (and a batch file to run it > as a service if that's what you prefer) , and another batch file to > start robust. Just type 'go regionname' and it will run without > Dreamgrid ever being used. I even include batch files to do these tasks > individually, and a sample and simple batch file to do them all at once. > > Dreamgrid makes it a lot easier to get up quickly, as it picks defaults > that always work. If ports are open and loopback works, it will be on > the hypergrid, too. It sets up Diva, Robust, all the config files for > Opensim, builds regions, and sets up tons of the modules like Gloebits, > Vivox, Birds, Tides, Datasnapshot, Diva, AutoRestart, and many others. > Dreamgrid does over 250 edits on startup, and then does about 300 more > for each region. No need to mess with INI files, ever! > > Source codes: My code is AGPL, so it's open source. All the code > (including Opensim) is compiled by me and is digitally signed by > Outworldz, LLC so it is safe to download and run. Dreamgrid downloads > always include the source code for Opensim, which is also easily > upgraded by copying a stock Opensim zip file over it and running > prebuild and compile.bat, assuming you want to add modules or develop C# > code or tweak Opensim. You can even compile it elsewhere and copy > opensim/bin over my code. and it should work. Nothing gets stepped on. > The source for both DG and Opensim is at github.com/Outworldz. You can > clone that and compile it the app with Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 and it > will run everything, including a database and Opensim immediately. > > If you still want to roll your own from my base, there are some minor > differences in INI settings you need to be aware of. It's still all > core Opensim. > > The region folders are set up to allow one Opensim.exe run all DOS > instances. > bin\Openim.ini is now bin\Opensim.proto. This gets copied into region > folder as Opensim.ini so each DOS Box can have different settings, such > as UBODE versus Bullet. > bin\config-include\OSSLEnable.ini is now > bin\config-include\OSSLEnableDG.ini, so stock Opensim does not overwrite it. > > -- > > --ooo------/\/\/\-----|(------ooo------/\/\/\-----|(------ooo---- > Fred K. Beckhusen > President > Micro Technology Services, Inc. > [email protected] > tel: (888) 230-MTSI Toll Free > cel: (469) 951-7635 > http://www.mitsi.com > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users -- 2.1.3. Life with eternal upgrades _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
