Now a few high-level words about how the client viewer and opensim server work together. We'll discuss these things in future articles. I call it a "viewer on-ramp website" for newbies who have yet to install a viewer or visit SL with its viewer. This assumes extra storage may be needed ultimately for backups in the form of MySQL, OAR files and log files, room for a Drupal themed startup website. The best being a Data center setup, if you can afford it. 2 GB of main memory and very high speed access to the Internet. I recommend at least a dual core AMD or Intel computer. You'll need hardware to host the server on. we will use the standalone mode, but a very specifically configured one, the Diva Distro version. It would be too difficult to provide detail instructions for both going forward, so I'll choose one for now. Opensim can be configured into (2) modes: Standalone Server mode or Grid mode. This is simply because these are the systems I know best. For this article I will be using Windows 2008 Standard Server and/or Windows 7.
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Windows, Linux or Mac OS X using Mono a cross-platform implementation of C#. The Opensim server is written in the C# language which can run on multiple OS platforms. However, again this is an excellent guideline for creating your own virtual world, explaining many things found in pieces across the web and will remain up for that very reason. Unfortunately, technology changes rapidly as tools change and some of the specifics are no longer current and up to date, since I have re-written the article for the last three years and re-written every year, I'm tired of trying to hit a moving target. PLEASE NOTE: This very detailed article has been deprecated, not because its a bad article, its an excellent article which explains in a general the way setting up your own virtual world with DIVA's version of opensimulator. Standalone Opensimulator, Data center Server and MySQL A picture of the Rocket Virtual world created in Part I and II of this article.