January 25, 2008
OpenSim…or: your very own secondlife grid in 3 easy steps…
filed mid-afternoon by DrScofield in: from the grid, hacking
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want to run your own secondlife grid? not satisfied with that lousy 512m² plot in the middle of that sleazy, red-light district sim somewhere on a remote secondlife island on the LindenLab grid? ever dreamed of becoming a railway tycoon and running a railway company in secondlife — but couldn’t effort those 16 islands because you weren’t a wealthy railway tycoon in RL to begin with? how about that 4×4 sim grid with a couple islands and lots and lots and lots of sea to stage those regattas?

well, here’s your chance to become a grid master, a grid superlord — just 3 easy steps to start your own grid:

  • install mono & subversion (a simple apt-get install mono subversion on ubuntu boxes)
  • check out OpenSim: 
        % svn co http://opensimulator.org/svn/opensim/trunk opensim
        % cd opensim
        % ./runprebuild.sh
        % nant
        % cd bin
        % mono ./OpenSim.exe
  • connect to your now running OpenGrid like so:
        % secondlife -loginuri http://127.0.0.1:9000

voila! your very own “grid” — admittedly not yet that 16 region grid i mention in the beginnig, but!, we are getting there :-)

coming up next: i want more regions!

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