[Opensim-dev] MacSimStick needs some eyes (Mac, DivaDistro, Mono)

[Daniel Smith]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Crista Lopes <lopes at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> I'm glad to hear! I could alleviate the problem with an extra exception
> handler, but the fact that the exception was happening was not a good thing.
> It is likely that my student who run into this same problem was running that
> VirtualBox too. Other students with Macs didn't have this problem.


It makes me wonder what is different about the network adapter installed
by Sun VirtualBox, versus VMWare or Parallels.  The first thing
that comes to mind is the length of the name of : vboxnet0 .. 8 characters...

more info at:
https://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=353017
http://www.mail-archive.com/mono-bugs@lists.ximian.com/msg73064.html

Daniel

>
> On 11/11/2010 6:34 PM, Daniel Smith wrote:
>>
>> Peeps!  Progress made :)  I think we really will have a MacSimStick.
>>
>> I now believe the culprit is the Sun VirtualBox network adapter.  I
>> started digging into
>> Mono errors, removed Vbox, and am happy to say that I can run Diva on my
>> Mac!
>> I will clean up a few items on MacSimStick and come up with an update by
>> Sunday.
>> (some libs still pointing at local disk.. d'oh)
>>
>> more soon,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Daniel Smith<javajoint at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings Folks,
>>>
>>> I've made a lot of progress towards getting a self contained OpenSim
>>> environment
>>> running on a USB Key on the Mac.
>>>
>>> But there is a huge showstopper bug with Mono and Networking.
>>>
>>> So if you are handy with Mono on a Mac, and you are keen to see this
>>> happen,
>>> please see my blog post, download the 240 meg disk image, and give it a
>>> go.
>>> I think we could be close!
>>>
>>> More info and download link at:
>>> http://www.daniel.org/blog/2010/11/10/macsimstick-needs-some-eyes/
>>>
>>> (I'm not putting the direct link to the disk image here, because I dont
>>> want
>>> someone reading too quickly, downloading, and expecting it to just work
>>> out of the box - we're not there yet)
>>>
>>> thanks all!
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
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>>> Daniel Smith - Sonoma County, California
>>> http://daniel.org/resume
>>>
>>
>>
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