[Opensim-users] e: Diva Distro does not work for me-alternatives please, (Fred Beckjhusen)

[Ethan Gardener]

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, opensim-users-request at opensimulator.org 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.
> 
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