Greetings visitors. I see that there has been quite a few of you in the last couple of days, so welcome. Now that standalone mode seems to be working okay with MySQL, it is time once more to see if grid mode can be started. That is the big project for the coming weekend.
As mentioned, I may be up against a brick wall ultimately anyway, as far as serious software modification on the existing build. Here is why. There are three computers currently in the RL lab. One runs Windows 2000 Pro, one runs the small business version of Windows 2003 Server, and the laptop runs Vista. The only way to do any reasonable modification of the existing OpenSim build is to have Visual Studio 2005 and OpenSim on the same computer. I did do an initial build over the network, with OpenSim on 2003 and VS 2005 on Vista. That took for ever. Imagine the glacial speed if I tried to run under the VS 2005 debugger that way.
There are series of problems getting VS 2005 installed on the Windows Server 2003 machine. The CD Rom drive on it won’t run the VS 2005 installation disks. Trying to run OpenSim as it currently exists, together with VS 2005 on the Vista laptop won’t work if I try to run under the debugger. The only way I can get OpenSim to run right is to start it using a command prompt which is started as Administrator. Unless I can coax Vista to give the debugger Administrator privileges, and perhaps that can be done, the command prompt brought up by the debugger to run OpenSim won’t cut it. The HTTPListener class instance will not have sufficient rights to listen for HTTP access from the SL viewer.
That leaves moving everything to Windows 2000 Pro, but the Microsoft documentation says that the HTTPListener won’t run on that OS. That may only be because Windows 2000 doesn’t come with the .NET Framework 2.x, and I have already installed that on the 2K machine. So, maybe it will, then again maybe it won’t.
The other alternative is just to live with the encredible slowness of trying to run under the debugger with VS 2005 on the Vista laptop, running over the network to OpenSim on Windows 2003 Server. And it may just mean that I can just live with the software just as it exists and never get clever with my own modifications.
One thing for sure, I am going to give it the old college try in the current configuration (everything on Vista) to at least get grid mode going. After that, I want to work on some of the minor things mentioned previously. Then, we’ll see.
Stay tuned, and look for some further results probably Monday some time.
Tags: OpenSim, OpenSimulator
