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

Thu Jan 10 15:33:41 UTC 2019

Thanks for soldiering on Fred, you are deeply admired here.
Ramesh

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:42 AM Ethan Gardener <eekee57 at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 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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> > Fred K. Beckhusen
> > President
> > Micro Technology Services, Inc.
> > fred.b at mitsi.com
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