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Highly Experimental Region Launcher
OSGrid now has a region launching application, designed for windows users who are hosting from home behind a NAT'd router. Do not attempt to use this on a dedicated server - it'll probably break.
Warning - this is experimental software. It contains it's fair share of bugs - but it works as intended for enough users for this to be useful. It relies on UPnP and NAT loopback being enabled on your router - if you have either of these disabled or not supported, it will not work.
Download: R5.zip (97.5kb)
How to use it
The application is fairly simple - enter in a desired region name, and your OSGrid avatar name; clicking launch will cause the application to download and install OpenSimulator configured for OSGrid.
The launcher will run through a number of stages:
- Network Testing - will attempt to determine if your router can host a sim (using UPnP and NAT Loopback). If it is unabled to request the appropriate resources from your router, it will exit. (and it is unlikely that you will be able to host from home.)
- Download - it will now download the latest packaged version of OpenSimulator provided by OSGrid. This is always the recommended version to connect with. This might take a while - the download is usually around 40MB.
- Unpacking - this is unzipping and preparing the directory for use.
- Writing Configuration - Determining network information and writing your region configuration out. Region coordinates will be automatically allocated based on free coordinates.
- Setting up port forwards - Uses UPnP to automatically forward port 9000(TCP+UDP) to your region server.
- Launching... - Starts the OpenSim.exe process
- Running - Confirmed process start, will exit after 15 seconds leaving the region server running.
Common Troubleshooting:
"Your router does not appear to support either UPnP or NAT Loopback. You may need to host your region on a dedicated server or VPS instead." - This error means that we were unable to automatically configure your router. If you know how to setup a region manually, you can try that and see if that works.
Crashes with COMException - This is caused by some internal glitch, if this occurs, please comment with your system details.
"Operating system not supported." - This requires at least Windows XP SP3. This error is caused by the OS not supporting the NATUPNPLib COM component. Confirmed working are WinXP SP3 and Vista.
Last updated 410 days ago by Adam Frisby
I'm testing it in a: MS XP Profesional version 2002 service PAck 3, Intel Core Quad CPU Q6600 2.40 Ghz 3.00 Gb RAM, but says than "Operating System not supported"
The aplication to check other XP than are not in english?. I had that problem testing the Shack dougall's Prim composer 2 plugin and that was the cause.
Thanks
Albert
Albert OpenSim 388 days ago
For the 'OS Not supported' error - that's thrown when it's unable to bind NATUPNPLib, I dont know how helpful that information is, but it might help a few people.
Adam Frisby 388 days ago
Ooooohhhh....can we get this to work on a mac? Then I can FINALLY get my regions connected! :P
Kitsune Lassiter 388 days ago
Alas Mono/OSX wont/dont support NATUPNPLib, so afraid it's win-only for the moment.
Adam Frisby 388 days ago
New version coming
Adam Frisby 386 days ago
Hmm... looks like a simplified version of my OSIE configuration tool I was working on.
http:/
Instant Blue 386 days ago
New version: http:/
Source: http:/
This version should support Mono on Linux & OSX.
Adam Frisby 386 days ago
THANK YOU! Adam...I'l give it a try! :D
Kitsune Lassiter 382 days ago
Ok...It will work on a OSX system up to a point. It gave me a network error but the window was blank. Adam would you like more deatils on the error? If so let me know.
Kitsune Lassiter 382 days ago
The launcher running under Linux Mono 2.4, can not find the OpenSIm.32BitLanch.exe file, but the file it's looking for is actually in the location (on my system) /home/user/OSGridLauncherR18/opensim called bin//OpenSim32BitLaunch.exe but not actually in the bin folder, the bin folder contains the Regions folder.
Also the statement "Your router does not appear to support either UPnP or NAT Loopback. You may need to host your region on a dedicated server or VPS instead." - This error means that we were unable to automatically configure your router." is actually telling people to either go out, find a router that specifically has NAT loopback or spend extra money to host on a VPS or a dedicated server, but infact it is possible on most routers to fool them into thinking it does have NAT loopback, but the launcher will not be able to detect that and still display the message of not detecting NAT loopback.
Please refer to the post made by Dr B The Master at http:/
Marlon Wulluf 368 days ago
Hi! It tells me OS is not supported. I'm running Vista though.. Can you help?
Yip
Yip Jannings 206 days ago
Sorry, downloaded latest version and it worked, however there was somethink with the 9000 port..
I clicked okay, it started running, in the end saying wanted to inform neighbours. That did not succeed then I saw the name of my region with an # behind it, then nothing.. lol.
So I waited a bit, went to do something else, but after some time nothing changed, so I closed the window. Logged in to the OS Grid, but no region of mine there yet. Am I doing things wrong? Let me know please..;-)
Thanks, Yip
Yip Jannings 206 days ago
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/me could really need such thing, im to dumb for SVN and that stuff so kinda like a easy setup program and the webinterface thing thats planned. Im looking forward to admining a region getting as easy as running a tv.
Vincent Sylvester 396 days ago