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OpenSim Update

NMC Virtual Worlds : Jul 21, 2010 03:23am

Any of you checking in with the OpenSim NMC Campus on OSgrid may have noticed it went away recently.

Fear not! I’ve been working away behind the scenes setting up, testing & developing for an NMC Grid on which we hope to offer rental islands and parcels as well as the opportunity to connect your own islands too. There will be more information about this to come of course.

If you’re interested in some of the technical details: I’m running version 0.7-rc2. Although this isn’t quite ready for prime time, it marks a large architectural change in the OpenSim servers & databases so for setting up a new grid it seemed to be the best starting point, ready for when it becomes the official release. If you think you might like to connect a sim to our grid I’d suggest you upgrade and start testing in advance. The main difference for region servers are slightly different .ini files though you’ll find the changes are far less dramatic than those for the grid servers (which you won’t have to worry about). Always make backups of your region databases of course, but I found the migration was handled without problems when I upgraded here.

Of course there’s more to running a grid than than the servers as it requires a considerable amount of support services, not least of which is a website enabling users to create accounts, check the grid status etc. Previous web interfaces currently don’t fully work with 0.7 so this is something I’ve been developing myself, which has proven very useful as I’ve really got to know my way around the opensim database structures.

Stay tuned anyway and very soon we hope to release details and information allowing you to come and explore, rent or even become a part of the nmc grid yourselves!

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