Linux – iDRAC6 Virtual Media native library cannot be loaded

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When attempting to mount Virtual Media on a iDRAC6 IP KVM session I get the following error:

The Virtual Media program will close. Reason: The Virtual Media native library cannot be loaded.

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and:

$ javaws -version
Java(TM) Web Start 1.6.0_16

$ uname -a
Linux aud22419-linux 2.6.28-15-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 31 13:39:06 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ firefox -version
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14, Copyright (c) 1998 – 2009 mozilla.org

On Windows + IE it (unsurprisingly) works.

I've just gotten off the phone with the Dell tech support and I was told it is known to work on Linux + Firefox, albeit Ubuntu is not supported (by Dell, that is).

Has anyone out there managed to mount virtual media in the same scenario?

Best Answer

use a 32 bit jre. sun jre 1.6.0 update 16 worked fine for me, as did the 32bit openjdk.

Simply tell firefox to open the jnlp with the 32-bit javaws you install. You may need to run javaws /path/to/your/saved/jnlp to see if there are any 32 bit libraries missing as well. In my case it bitched that it couldn't find libXtst so I just did a yum -y install libXtst.i586 on Fedora 11 and I was working; obviously wiht Ubuntu commands will be a little different, but I'm more or less confident similar steps will get you working...

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