Doc/Compatibility: Arm64 seems unsupported (dlopen libiKVM64.jnilib)

[thegushi]

Running on MacOS Sonoma 14.1, when I try to launch the KVM feature, I get a one-line dialog window about 4x as wide as my screen that says:

/Users/ dmahoney/Applications/IPMIView.app/Contents/Resources/IPMIView/libiKVM64.jnilib: dlopen/Users /dmahoney/Applications/IPMIView.app/Contents/Resources/IPMIView/libiKVM64.jnilib, 0x0001): tried: /Users/dmahoney/Applications/IPMIView.app/Contents/Resources/IPMIView/libiKVM64.jnilib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have '×86_64', need 'arm64)), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Users/dmahoney/ Applications/IPMIView.app/Contents/Resources/IPMIView/libiKVM64.jnilib' (no such file), '/Users /dmahoney/Applications /IPMIView.app/Contents /Resources/IPMIView/libiKVM6 (and then trails off)

Now, there may in fact be a way to get this to open under some kind of Rosettafied Java, or this may just be a non-starter. For the moment, it's worth noting in the docs that this does/doesn't seem to work on apple silicon platforms.

Or if it does, clarifying the docs or setup scripts so whatever I'm doing wrong is preventable.

(Wasn't "compile once, run anywhere" the lie we were sold with Java anyway?)

[TheCase]

https://github.com/TheCase/IPMIView.app/wiki/Troubleshooting

[sofakng]

I'm having the same issue and it doesn't appear to be due to macOS security.

It looks like we need an arm64 version of the libiKVM_v11_v64.jnilib.

[TheCase]

See this issue report: #23 (comment)

[ChristopherSchultz]

If you take a look at PR #33, you'll see I have adjusted the script so that you can set your own JAVA_HOME before building app bundle. Try this:

0. Install Rosetta 2
1. Download an x86-64 version of a JRE
2. Set JAVA_HOME to point to x86-64-java/Contents/Home
3. Run script.sh

This should build your IPMIView.app to use your x86-64 version Java where the KVM will work.

[TheCase]

Great stuff - added this info the to Wiki https://github.com/TheCase/IPMIView.app/wiki/ARM64-Issues

[ChristopherSchultz]

I have submitted PR #37 which ensures that you are using an x86-64 Java to build the application bundle.

[obruchez]

For some reason, this still doesn't solve the problem for me. I have Rosetta 2 installed. I have a x86-64 version of the JRE installed. JAVA_HOME points to that specific version of the JRE when I run script.sh. I still get the same error message. Now if I run java from the command line, launching the KVM console doesn't show the error dialog, but it doesn't do anything else.

.../jdk-24.0.2.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -jar ~/Applications/IPMIView.app/Contents/Resources/IPMIView/IPMIView20.jar

file .../jdk-24.0.2.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java gives me:

java: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

I also have the java executable added to the "Input Monitoring" security setting.

[ixs]

@obruchez it's not working for you because the wrong java is used for the iKVM client.

/usr/bin/java -Djava.library.path=. -jar iKVM.jar 123.123.123.123 0 0 --FR is what is used when executing the KVM program.
Make sure you really have exported your JAVA_HOME variable.