After you make your decision, click NEXT. Remember that your Virtual Box will actually use the full amount of the ram you set to it so this is an important decision. Obviously a lot of you won't have this much so you will have to go with a lower value. I went with 1024 (1 gig) because I have 4 gigs of ram on my laptop. Now this next box is tricky because you have to determine how much RAM you want to use for the operating system. Then click on the Drop Box under it and makes sure it says Ubuntu (remember if you use another Linux you will need to make sure you put the proper version). Click on the Drop Box that says Microsoft Windows and then click Linux. Type in any name you like, I went with Talisman Server. This section we will discuss setting up Virtual Box now that you have it installed. Navicat will go on Windows for this tutoral. You can also install Navicat if you like, you won't be using it just yet but at least you can have it ready for when we will use it. Now install Virtual Box on your computer. If you don't know anyone, I will of course assist you. I won't explain how to do this since this is basic Windows 101 but if you struggle with this you should ask someone you know first since most people generally know how to do this and it is a pain to explain over a forum, it will benefit you from not having to wait so long for a reply this way. The files you want to put in here are Database files and your Ubuntu ISO there. This is a good time to move all the downloaded files to it. Now that you have this nice folder setup, you have a place to put all the files you will be using. Click on that and a new folder with the name NEW FOLDER will be created but you can rename that immediately as it will be highlighted. Right Click anywhere in that window and then on that menu goto NEW and then FOLDER. Now for both Windows version this will bring up folders and files on the right side. In win XP once you click on MY COMPUTER you click on C. For this guild, click on MY COMPUTER if you are in WIN XP or if you are in Windows 7 click OS(C which is under Computer. I also used this folder to put all my downloaded files into so that everything was in one place. I will make it simple for those who struggle with guides so if you do put the folder somewhere else, please make sure you remember where you placed it or else you will have problems. It doesn't matter where you create the folder as long as you know how to access it. Hold the WINDOWS button and press R, this brings up the run command. I use these terms quite a bit so get use to them.įirst we need a folder to work from. so Ctrl+t means to hold Ctrl down and press the t key whild Ctrl+Alt+Del means to hold down Ctrl and Alt at the same time and press Delete. When I say something like Ctrl+t, shirt+y, or Ctrl+Alt+del this means that you hold down every key and press the last key. I am actually starting from scratch and typing this as I go so that my guide doesn't miss anything, if I do for some reason miss something please feel free to let me know because the point of this is to make sure everyone can setup the server Hopefully everyone understands this and it makes it easier for them to follow. I wanted to make this as simple as possible and this is the general format I use for all my tutorals. When I want to point out specific menu names, I will put them in allĬaps so when I say click FILE, that means you are looking for FILE and not for file or file and. This is so that there is no confusion.ĮNTER is assumed to be pressed for each command unless I specifiy otherwise. Some common things you will need to know, when I give instructions to type I will always place them in "". If you are stuck though I will be happy to address your questions! I took two whole days writing this tutorial and trying to make it as detailed as possible, so take advantage of all the information in here if you are stuck before asking questions. Just remember though that by skipping parts you could be missing something that is causing your error. So if you already know you have the network up and MySQL runs perfectly, then you can skip right to the Game Server part. Lets get started!įirst of all if you already feel confident and are just using this guide to figure out what mistakes you made, here is a breakdown of all the sections: Step one can be skipped if you are running this from a separate computer and step 3 becomes super easy also if you are doing this since you don't have to play with any network settings. Those are the steps you will need to follow and in that order to set up this game. Setting up the network so you can see the Virtual Server All links will be posted at the end instead of scattered throughout the guide so you can download all them at once or one at a time, which ever you choose. Here is my guide to running the Talisman Online server from a Windows machine with Linux in a VM.
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