IBM RSA-II "virtual drive" feature does not work with OpenJDK

[Mario Torre]

Hi Martin,

As I said, you need to report that to IBM, they will guide you.

Cheers,
Mario

On Mon 8. May 2017 at 14:37, Martin T <m4rtntns at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Mario Torre
> <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2017-05-08 13:45 GMT+02:00 dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>:
> >> Hi Martin,
> >>
> >> we don't provide OpenJDK binaries in Linux distributions.
> >>
> >> I'd suggest reporting it to the provider of your binaries directly
> (Debian
> >> in this case), as we don't provide a browser plugin implementation,
> either.
> >> Alternatively, you may want to give the distro-pkg-dev mailing list a
> try,
> >> where the developers of the IcedTea-Web plugin and/or Debian packages
> may be
> >> found.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> dalibor topic
> >
> > This is probably something to report to IBM first, I suspect some use
> > of some weird hidden internal code. Jigsaw is long overdue...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mario
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> Mario,
>
> when I start the applet, then it downloads libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3
> binary which I guess is a native library(Java Native Interface) for
> Linux operating system:
>
> # file /root/IBM/10.10.10.65/libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3
> /root/IBM/10.10.10.65/libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3: ELF 32-bit LSB shared
> object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not
> stripped
> #
> # strings /root/IBM/10.10.10.65/libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3  | grep
> GetSupportedDevices
> Java_VirtualDrive_PassThroughCommand_GetSupportedDevices
> GetSupportedDevices
> Java_VirtualDrive_PassThroughCommand_GetSupportedDevices
> #
>
> I also guess that this is provided by IBM and it's probably broken?
> Under Windows operating system it seems to download a dll file
> according to Java Console:
>
> ClientInterface::downloadLib: downloaded C:\Documents and
> Settings\user\IBM\10.10.10.65\remotedrive3d.dll in 1 attempts.
>
>
> So I guess either the libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3 is broken or my Linux
> version is not compatible with this native library..?
>
>
> thanks,
> Martin
>