Richard Garsthagen, Senior Evangelist at VMware announced that the 2nd VMworld Europe 2009 will offer more hands-on labs at the event. These labs offer you a change to lay your hands on the latest technologies like Fault Tolerant, VMark, Distributed Virtual Switches and much more. All the labs will be self-paced, so you can come whenever you like and how often you like! VMware will provide terminals where you can sit down and work through these labs, but will also allow you to connect with your own laptop. When you bring your own laptop, there is even less chance of waiting in line. (Do make sure you run windows on your laptop, VMware will provide the VDI environment to connect to).
Friday, January 9. 2009
Virtual Infrastructure Java API | 1025 downloads in 2008
Steve JIN from VMware CoDevelopment Engineering reports 1025 downloads of the Virtual Infrastructure Java API.
Since its debut in May 2008, VI Java API has quickly caught the attention of VMware developer communities due to its elegant design and simplicity. As I know, many commercial companies use it for their product development and really enjoy the benefits the API brings in. Accoding to the project statistics, it hit the 1,000 download milestone days ago. As of today, the total number of direct download is 1,025. Many thanks for your support and I look forward to bringing you more features in 2009!
Virtual Infrastructure API is an open source project from VMware CoDevelopment Engineering. It aims to simplify the use of VI SDK. If you are using Java to develop applications talking to VMware Virtual Infrastructure, this API is for you. Using this API instead of the VI SDK web services interfaces results significantly less line of code, and much more readable code.
The Virtual Infrastructure Java API was initially created by Steve JIN from VMware CoDevelopment Engineering with strong support/help from Sujit Panikatt and other VMware colleagues. It's open sourced at sourceforge.net under BSD license in May 2008.
Thursday, January 8. 2009
Abnormally increased RAM usage of hostd
There’s running an interesting discussion on the VMware communities. It looks like the hostd is trying to eat-up more than 200 MB of memory. Please comment on Andreas Peetz’s post is you know what’s going wrong.
since we updated our ESX hosts from ESX 3.5 Update 2 to ESX 3.5 Update 3 (+ Dec 2008 patches) we experience an abnormally high RAM usage of the hostd management process on the hosts.
The symptoms are that hostd hits its default hard memory limit of 200 MB and shuts itself down. This is indicated by the following error message in var/log/vmware/hostd.log:
[2009-01-06 06:25:47.707 'Memory checker' 19123120 error] Current value 207184 exceeds hard limit 204800. Shutting down process.
Update : For now the bottom line is: *Don't let EMC Controlcenter query your ESX hosts if they are on 3.5 Update 3*.
Crayon Physics, I’m hooked!!!
Perti Purho over at Kloonigames released Crayon Physics Deluxe. This is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics. This is the coolest game I’ve seen since Pac-Man. Make sure you watch the video and let me know if you also experienced the WOW. Also the Playground (which hosts user generated levels) is now open for the public.
Crayon Physics Deluxe trailer 2 from Petri Purho on Vimeo.
Petri Purho is a student at Helsinki Polytechnic, studying computer science. Game development has been a his hobby for at least ten years now. His gaming interests don’t just limit to video games, but also include pen & paper role-playing games, strategy games, board games and card games.
Update : Just played my first game and made a mess of it, dam I suck. Have to create bigger blocks.