jtreg cannot be run against a pre-built/downloaded JDK anymore?

[Jaikiran Pai]

In order to reproduce one of the issues I have been looking into, I've 
been trying to run a jtreg test case against a Java 17 installation. The 
command I use is:

java -jar jtreg.jar -jdk:<path-to-jdk-17-home> 
test/jdk/java/..../SomeTest.java

This runs into the following exception:

failed to get value for vm.cds.write.archived.java.heap
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: 'boolean 
jdk.test.whitebox.WhiteBox.canWriteJavaHeapArchive()'
     at jdk.test.whitebox.WhiteBox.canWriteJavaHeapArchive(Native Method)
     at requires.VMProps.vmCDSCanWriteArchivedJavaHeap(VMProps.java:413)
     at requires.VMProps$SafeMap.put(VMProps.java:72)
     at requires.VMProps.call(VMProps.java:113)
     at requires.VMProps.call(VMProps.java:60)
     at 
com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.GetJDKProperties.run(GetJDKProperties.java:80)
     at 
com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.GetJDKProperties.main(GetJDKProperties.java:54)
Test results: failed: 1

Is this something I am doing wrong or is it some genuine issue? I 
haven't been able to run jtreg against a downloaded/installed JDK for 
many weeks now. Initially I thought I had somehow messed my local jdk 
source repo setup so didn't pay much attention to the failures. But now, 
I'm trying this on a completely different clean setup and that too runs 
into this issue.

Here's the output of jtreg -version:

jtreg 6.1-dev+1
Installed in <some-location>\jtreg\lib\jtreg.jar
Running on platform version 17.0.1 from <some-location>\jdk-17.0.1.
Built with Java(TM) 2 SDK, Version 1.8.0_312-b07 on November 12, 2021.
Copyright (c) 1999, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
JT Harness, version 6.0 ea b14 (November 12, 2021)
JCov 3.0-2
Java Assembler Tools, version 7.0 ea b09 (November 12, 2021)
TestNG (testng.jar): version 7.3.0
TestNG (jcommander.jar): version unknown
TestNG (guice.jar): version 4.2.3
JUnit (junit.jar): version 4.13.2
JUnit (hamcrest.jar): version 2.2

-Jaikiran