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+QuickFix for OVH/SuperMicro’s iKVM
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+
+When you order OVH’s Professional Use with your dedicated server you
+will get access to SuperMicro’s iKVM.
+
+iKVM is a Java IPMI Console that gives you access to your server screen
+and keyboard like you were physically in front of it. This is very
+useful when doing advanced configuration and fiddling with kernel where
+you are likely to loose access to your server.
+
+Unfortunately there seems to be a bug in the current implementation that
+prevent the Java application from running. I am running a Debian Sid
+64bit with openjdk 1.6.0\_24 which raise error :
+
+    no iKVM64 in java.library.path
+
+Just having a look at the kvm.jnlp shows that things are obviously wrong
+so I made a quick patch to solve this issue : attachments:ikvm.patch  
+In short SuperMicro are using the jnlpackEnabled and jnlversionEnabled
+properties on the iKVM.jar resources but not on the follow up library
+resources (liblinux\_x86\_64.jar or liblinux\_x86). So when Java
+Webstart gets a 404 in reply to the uncompressed version it does not try
+to fetch the packed one.
+
+The patch works on both linux x86 and amd64/x86\_64 but a similar method
+should work on other platforms if you encounter the same issue.
+
+Just use :
+
+    patch -p0 < ikvm.patch
+
+Hope this help !
+