okey dokey, here is an update on sim on a stick
i am looking for a local Mac to try it out on but no luck so far. i do have someone i know with one who is a few hours a away and we should be getting together sometime soon
so it runs on my XP machine just fine and i also ran it on windows Vista 32-bit without issue but had a problem with Vista 64-bit. OpenSim would open its window and then windows would throw a fail dialog window “OpenSim has stopped working”
Roger, who created the instructions and video tutorials i used, suggested i try running another executable in Diva’s bin folder and tadah! it worked! =)
then i decided to test it again on the work machines where i had received the “Apache is not running . . .” message from MoWeS portable II (see image below)
i figured if Apache isn’t running, then nothing else would run (see, i am not very techy, especially for a geeklette) =p
so i stuck it back into the vista 64-bit in the corporate setting, Apache failed, but then i launched OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe (i am so brave eh?) and waited and after about 20 seconds, GOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!
it worked *scratches head – is the apache server thing just for Diva’s Wifi app?*
then i grabbed a windows 7 lenovo T61 and tried it. same error – no Apache – but launching OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe succeeded! w00t! it’s party time in Whoville!
that’s the screen shot i have below (i’m sorry Prok, that pic is pretty crowded too – you’d have a panic attack if you saw my work station. i have two machines and each has dual 23 inch monitors and there is even a third monitor on one machine for video editing that replicates TV resolution for Avid work) *sigh, multitasking, the bane of the 21st century*
- so for XP and Vista 32-bit, use OpenSim.exe
- for Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64-bit, use OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe (make that a shortcut too)
i did note that my arms looked whacked in the image below on the lenovo T61 (oh oh, geeky number alert: 2 gig of ram and an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M vid card – that’s a 3 year old card), and OpenSim was bogging down, but i would consider it usable on the T61 but would not want to build for an hour on it. for showing others what you have it would be fine. the lenovo lappies are pretty popular in the corporate world it seems
so far, it’s all only taking up 361 megs of space and that includes having the Imprudence viewer on it!
oh, i also copied the entire stick onto another stick (took about 20 minutes from USB to USB) to see if that would simply replicate the original and it did!
so you can make one and copy it for students, presentations, workshops, or even as schwag at conferences! woohoo! =)
using this means no need to worry about internet connections and you could preload IAR files (inventory) and OAR files with whatever you need for use in teaching or demonstrations =)
typically, most pics i put in a post are clickable to go to their flickr pages so that you can look at bigger ones
this screenshot is completely disconnected from any network or wifi. it took about 30 seconds for OpenSim to fully fire up
Congrats!
Jor3l
30 Sep 10 at 9:45 pm
thanks, now to set up the portable apps version of a browser to connect to it! =)
Ener Hax
30 Sep 10 at 9:57 pm
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30 Sep 10 at 10:05 pm
I know this is not exactly the same, but some of you might be interested to know that you can access SL (or maybe OpenSims?) from a VIEWER-on-a-stick…
I installed SnowGlobe viewer (one of LL’s better ones, it’s like the old viewer + some extra features) on a 2GB USB stick. It runs SL just fine on my computer at work (which I had IT add more memory and a basic NVIDIA card to, hee hee, under guise of needing to run 2 monitors).
I imagine some other viewers would work just as well if installed directly to the USB stick. And I often use SnowGlobe as an OpenSim viewer. Get SnowGlobe at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Snowglobe
Also interesting is that for many users, SnowGlobe loads textures faster and gets a better FPS than the other viewers (some laptop users swear by SnowGlobe). Supposedly some of the Viewer 2.x code comes directly from SnowGlobe, but I haven’t tested the speeds of 2.x yet.
Viewer-on-a-stick SL does add a few files to the computer itself when you run it, unless you change the default SL cache location to be on the USB drive itself… or you can just delete the cache folder from the PC and empty the recycle bin after logging off SL. No traces, wheeee.
Well, it used to work at work. I’m currently unemployed (no, I was not canned for SL’ing at work!). But I’m betting my former work PC is lonely without avatars running around!
DreamWalker McCallister
30 Sep 10 at 10:11 pm
yeah, i have imprudence on the stick. now if you want to connect to the web, like via a get url from in-world, you will need to install a portable web browser
i have been using a stick browser for two years for work. none of my browsing happens on the work pc, it’s all on my stick
http://portableapps.com/
i’ll have to try snowglobe, it sounds like it has low overhead, thanks! =)
Ener Hax
1 Oct 10 at 1:06 am
Well, use a LiveUSB instead, you will have everything you need :-)
Jor3l
1 Oct 10 at 12:48 pm
you overestimate my technical skills! i have a hard time putting the usb into the port the proper way! =D
is installing Linux difficult? *cogs in my head turning*
Ener Hax
1 Oct 10 at 12:52 pm
it´s easy, look here http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ – you can also launch it in windows with a portable VirtualBox :)
Jor3l
3 Oct 10 at 12:16 pm
hey!!! wow, that looks even possible for me to install! holy cow! you are going to turn me into a technical person! and it’s even available in french!
thank you jor31! =)
Ener Hax
3 Oct 10 at 12:39 pm
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5 Oct 10 at 4:37 am
Any luck yet with installing OS on an OX platform (MAC)?
James Fullerton
29 Oct 10 at 9:33 am
i only had a chance to test it and, not surprisingly, it failed but . . .
i was in-world last night with our fave scripter, DreamWalker, who has a Mac. she was going to run it through bootcamp into XP and report back. that is not ideal i would think, but since she has a Mac, i think she will be trying to get it natively working
i have zip Mac experience so am useless on that front but she is pretty sharp, so let’s see (and i’ll keep bugging her and report back)
Ener Hax
29 Oct 10 at 3:27 pm
I too would be interested if this works on a Mac – no-one I know has done this yet?
Leon Cych
30 Oct 10 at 3:40 pm
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10 Jan 11 at 7:23 am
I wanted to share some troubleshooting info for those who cannot get the Sim on a stick to run on a 64 bit machine running Vista Ultimatte-
Service Pack 2, which is what my Hp Pavillion dv9700 notebook came with. Mowes ran fine after I turned off Skype, but it died when trying to load OpenSim 32bit. Hoping that I would not have to install another OS, I took it to my favorite guru. Turns out the simple addition of the line below, in the hosts file was enough to get me up and running.
Added entry [127.0.0.1 localhost] to \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.
Hope this helps someone out there who is having the same issue.
Regards-
AF
Annabelle Fanshaw
11 Jan 11 at 6:28 pm
fantastic information! thank you
i have only use the hosts file to spoof servers to test websites that don’t have their DNS changed yet, i had no idea it could be a solution for sim on a stick!
very clever =)
Ener Hax
11 Jan 11 at 8:31 pm
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