EQemu in a box? Two hours or less - Yet Another Tutorial
 

I put all the steps for setting up a completely working EQEMU server under a Virtual Machine up... From downloading and installing the VirtualBox software, to downloading and installing the OS (Ubuntu 11.10) ...

And a complete script for taking the machine from virgin install to downloading the source, db's, maps, etc... compiling/makes, fixing/modding the INI files and so on.

All you do is the easy stuff (and x-fer the spells file) at the end.

Take a look, if I am permitted to include a link -- I will make mods for other OSs (centos, others by request) and VM types (VMware) in the next week or two.

See :
http://www.proskeptic.com/wordpress

Any questions, you can post here, OR private message me here.. tomorrow I will have email enabled there.

I followed the tutorial and it seems great but it doesn't seem to work 100%. whenever I log in i see a server named "ship_in_a_bottle" and after trying to load it I get kicked back to login screen. after trying again I get an error 1017: Cannot login to the Everquest server. you may need to rerun the update patch. Repeatedly seeing this message may indicate a loss of connectivity to the patch server. this is usually temporary." Being completely new to this I have no idea where to start looking for problems.

oh never mind, i just typed sudo ./startup.sh before this and got permissions. leaving this in for prosperity------I am not sure if the following text means that the server start up had an error or not, but when I type ./startup.sh I get lines of messages saying chmod: changing permissions of '(files)' Operation not permitted.-------

also I wasn't even sure if i transferred the spell_us.txt file correctly. do you just download it from lucy, change the name and drop it into the server directory?

Fixed the problem. login.ini had the local_network at 192.168.0. when it should have been 192.168.1.

incredible script otherwise!

what server
 

your link shows 11.10 but it goes to 12.04 . will that version work?

and I'm also assuming we want the server version not the desktop is that correct?

you could do it on desktop. I run EQEmu on my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop just fine. The only problem i have is compiling EQEmuLoginServer. I've found that I can run MiniLogin.exe with Wine to get a fully functional EQEmu environment.

I'd rather run EQEmuLoginServer for my login server as that would allow me more flexibility... but MiniLogin works for now

There really is zero need to run your own login server.

Caryatis I'm a leach for Free Internet i'm connected directly to an Ap Router in client mode 80) Kind of like sitting at Mcdonalds using internet in the confort of your own home
another words i flashed my router no cable lines attached to my house

Prickle you can use EqEmuLoginServer follow this post 80) http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35057

Caryatis you can learn alot from a dummy just like chrsschb when he learned something new 80)

Prickle download url link to EqemuLoginServer
http://code.google.com/p/projecteqem...r.rar&can=2&q=

Unable to Right Click!
 

Doh mispost

"EQemu in a box" issues...
 

I've now created 3 new VirtualBox servers (deleting old, creating new) with the same issue each time. I'm a bit befuddled as to why this is happening. Everything goes smoothly until ./startup.sh command is sent...from there it looks like this:

.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Pitti n.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Quill to.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Kizzie_Minto pp.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Shakey_Scare crow.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Chopo .pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Shelm y.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Hebber_Drune ny.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Niepo .pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Banto .pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Rolli n.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Kaya_Cloudfo ot.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Jeggi n.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Marshal_Ghob ber.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Rayni n.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Fiddy_Bobick .pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Rellix.pl': Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Daleen_Leafs way.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Deputy_Tonlo .pl': Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/rivervale/Jimji_Bottle toe.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove': Operatio n not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove/#Caller_To rgal.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove/Rictor_Asm ot.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove/Rebecca_Ca bbageleaf.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove/Lupot_Nukl a.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove/#Caller_Gr oo.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove/Scout_Halm ia.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove/Thar_Anton .pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/fungusgrove/#Caller_Mu rkin.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha': Operation n ot permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#korascian_tr ap.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/A_Sludge_Lurk er.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/A_Stone_Heap. pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#jewel_trap.p l': Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/A_Mound_of_Ru bble.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#mud_trap.pl' : Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/A_Mystical_Ar bitor_of_Earth.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#stone_trap.p l': Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/A_Filth_Gorge r.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#Final_Trigge r.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#A_Rock_Monst rosity.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/A_Rock_Monstr osity.pl': Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/218068.pl': O peration not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#ent_trap.pl' : Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/A_Bloodthirst y_Vegerog.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#earth_trap.p l': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/A_Monsterous_ Mudwalker.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#A_Sludge_Lur ker.pl': Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/poeartha/#gem_trap.pl' : Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/dreadlands': Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/highpasshold/Guard_Bec ker.pl': Operation not permitted
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chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/highpasshold/Mutt_Root lit.pl': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/eqemu/server/quests/highpasshold/Stanos_He rkanor.pl': Operation not permitted
Starting Login Server...
Waiting about 5 seconds before starting World Server...
./startup.sh: line 13: ./EQEmuLoginServer: No such file or directory
Waiting 10 seconds before starting the zones via launcher
./startup.sh: line 18: ./world: No such file or directory
The server is mostly ready... give it a couple of minutes
to load stuff from the databases for the zones and users
can start logging in.
sysadmin@EQEMU-SERVER:/home/eqemu/server$ ./startup.sh: line 22: ./eqlaunch: No such file or directory
sysadmin@EQEMU-SERVER:/home/eqemu/server$

I have confirmed that all files are in place...any suggestions where I should start in troubleshooting?

im having the same problem as oldmanemu. any help woud be appriciated

that generally means you are trying to execute chmod on a file that you do not own and you are not logged on as root.

i started up the server did sudo su- ran ./startup.sh

i didnt get the denied stuff just this

Starting Login Server...
Waiting about 5 seconds before starting World Server...
./startup.sh: line 13: ./EQEmuLoginServer: No such file or directory
Waiting 10 seconds before starting the zones via launcher
./startup.sh: line 18: ./world: No such file or directory
The server is mostly ready... give it a couple of minutes
to load stuff from the databases for the zones and users
can start logging in.
sysadmin@EQEMU-SERVER:/home/eqemu/server$ ./startup.sh: line 22: ./eqlaunch: No such file or directory