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 subversionon 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!
[...] DrScofield’s instructions for setting up OpenSIM , I thought I’d give it a try on my OSX laptop. The process is not quite as straightforward, [...]
pingback by OpenSIM on OSX… or: your own secondlife grid in 8 easy steps — January 31, 2008 @ 11:46
Thanks for the instructions! On OSX it’s not as straightforward, but it works. I have documented it here: http://zzamboni.org/brt/2008/01/31/opensim-on-osx-or-your-own-secondlife-grid-in-8-easy-steps/
comment by ZZamboni — January 31, 2008 @ 11:51
OK EVERYONE THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO CONFUSING. SOMEONE PLZ HELP. MY email is btoura7898@aol.com
comment by confusedperson — July 30, 2008 @ 23:48
@confusedperson: a good place to ask questions is on the #opensim IRC channel (irc.freenode.net)
comment by DrScofield — July 31, 2008 @ 07:53
You might want to try this: http://maxping.org/resources/how-to/install/opensim-on-mac-osx—the-easy-way.aspx
comment by Travis — July 3, 2009 @ 18:17