[Opensim-users] linking regions and hypergrid

Mon Nov 9 07:14:21 UTC 2009

I defer to Diva - she knows what she has done far better than I ever will! :-)

FWIW her object is to provide a "kick start" that lets you see what a working grid looks like. That seems like a trivial step, but until you have something that works you really have no idea what is going on!

Once you have something going (even a "hello world") you can make small changes towards what you want and fix things as they break.

My solution to your conflict problem? A virtual machine - VMware, VirtualBox, whatever - that way WHEN (not if) you screw things up you just reset the VM and start over. It is not totally hassle free, but sure much better than trying to figure out a database corruption issue that went on for several weeks before you noticed it! 

I could tell you tales ... As could anyone who has been doing this for very long!

JESUS SAVES - early and often AND SO SHOULD YOU!

(Actually I notice that you are, but it never hurts to remind the lurkers!)

Karen

--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Kevin Buckley <kevin at buckley70.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Kevin Buckley <kevin at buckley70.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] linking regions and hypergrid
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 4:11 PM
> Karen
> 
> I had a quick look at the diva hypergrid
> distribution.  I'm interested
> because ultimately I think hypergrid is the way to go and
> also, right now,
> I'm fed up with the grey avatar/white eyes syndrome and
> maybe doing
> something different might fix it (hahaha).
> 
> I have a question though: what does 'configure.exe'
> actually do?
> 
> I'm already running a standalone with multi-regions, using
> MySQL, which a
> few of us are using and doing some building and asset
> generation.
> 
> I can't use Port-9000 because it's used for something else
> on my server.  So
> I use Ports 91xx for a 'Production Grid' and, if I want to
> test something, I
> snapshot the /bin directory and the MySQL schema and run an
> identical
> version on Ports 92xx.  If that works, then I migrate
> the changes to the
> Production Grid.  And I do an automated back-up of
> EVERYTHING! Every day,
> lol.
> 
> I don't want to try playing with the diva release and find
> 'configure.com'
> trashes my existing setup or MySQL database.
> 
> Thanks, Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de]
> On Behalf Of Karen Palen
> Sent: 27 October 2009 14:12
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] linking regions and hypergrid
> 
> 
> Probably the best way to answer your questions is to
> install the diva
> distibution and try out the hypergrid option!
> 
> From the wiki:
> Diva Distribution
> 
>     * Preconfigured hypergrided standalone. Easy
> to setup and to keep up to
> date. Windows and Linux/Unix. Download the file
> diva-rNNNN.zip, unzip it,
> read README.txt and take it from there. 
> 
> http://github.com/diva/diva-distribution/downloads 
> 
> I found it very easy to install with complete and explicit
> instructions in
> README files. The READMEs direct you to the wiki and other
> places where
> fairly complete instructions for using the hypergird can be
> found.
> 
> WARNING: Opensim is "alpha" software, Hypergid is
> "pre-alpha" and all kinds
> of thing work or don't work for no apparent reason. In
> particular hypergrid
> availability depends on who has their grid turn on when you
> try to connect -
> this varies hourly!
> 
> For all of that hypergrid is a lot of fun to experiment
> with, and the diva
> distribution is stable enough to do development and content
> creation
> provided you keep good backups! 
> 
> I do a backupPC backup every night PLUS a complete dump of
> my MySQL database
> every night! I was bitten once with database corruption and
> do NOT intend to
> lose my work again!
> 
> Good Luck and have fun!
> 
> Karen
> 
> --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Ken Grunke <kenearlg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Ken Grunke <kenearlg at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Opensim-users] linking regions and
> hypergrid
> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> > Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 12:15 AM
> > Is the link-region command from the
> > console in a standalone necessary to 
> > hypergrid from the SA to, say, a region in OSGrid for
> > example?
> > 
> > And is the link-region command needed the other way?
> From
> > the grid 
> > region to the standalone, that is, to be able to
> hypergrid
> > back to the SA?
> > 
> > Ken Grunke aka Key Gruin
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