Starting a VM with small disk space - Modifying ESX Swap file location
Here is a solution from our Senior Engineers, Kshitij Doshi and Ashok Emani to a particular problem that we encounter every now and then: VMware will allow you to configure a huge amount of DRAM to a VM, but then won't let you start the VM because it does not know where to store bytes for that VM if it needs to deschedule the VM. Problem details: You have installed ESX or vSphere on a disk, and you have created additional virtual machine(s) on that disk. You want to add a lot of memory to your VM(s). The amount of memory in your VM, plus the size of the root disk of your VM is greater than X. VMware will not let you boot your VM, becau

Load, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Hi again, everyone. This is my 5th blog on my project of porting a DirectX interactive demo to OpenGL. The name of the demo I am porting is “Destroy the Castle”. I call it “OpenGL Castle Destruction” in the OpenGL version. A list of my previous blogs on this topic can be found at the bottom of this blog. If you have been following along with me as I continue to develop this application, you know that I have started using OpenSceneGraph (OSG) as a method for loading and displaying all of the many objects I need to have for the demo. I mentioned in the last blog that I was able to load all of the object files int

Congratulations James Reinders!
Congratulations James on becoming an Intel Employee Black Belt Software Developer! James Reinders is an expert in the area of parallelism and Intel’s leading spokesperson on tools for parallelism. James is also author and co-author of several books in addition to being the author of the O’Reilly Nutshell book on the C++ extensions for parallelism provided by the popular Intel Threading Building Blocks. James has decades of experience with high degrees of parallelism having worked on groundbreaking compilers and architectures. We appreciate your contributions to Intel Software Network James :)

IT manager, your game has evolved: IM3 Unseen Forces has new challenges!
Everybody is playing IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces now :) Ok, not everybody, but there are many tens of thousands of players, competition is high, and a lot of changes were seen in the LeaderBoard. We have talked about this IT game in previous posts (

Windows 7* - what's in it for you?
After recently acquiring a netbook, I was intrigued by the "rush" to upgrade to Windows 7... I'm always crazy for the sleek interface upgrade and any new application interactions. I will admit to being more than a little intimidated by the copy-to-USB-drive-and-reinstall-every-three-days running procedures. However, I am looking forward to upgrading shortly. New "start menus" aside, I wondered what is in it for the vast majority of PC enthusiasts, who like me, now have multiple PCs running an aging version of Windows XP? One answer arrived via Facebook this morning from the vPro Expert Center... Intel IT, as a member of