Ubuntu, Java and Proxmox Console failure

[Ric Moore]

On 08/29/2013 12:15 PM, Brett Johnson wrote:
> On 08/28/2013 03:59 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
>> I have successfully installed Proxmox on my server but I now cannot get
>> access to any VM's that I install because I cannot get the built in
>> console to work.  It just never connects.  From what I've read this is a
>> Java error, but I've installed and confirmed Java 7 to be installed and
>> running correctly.  Still no luck with the console in Proxmox.
>
> If you're trying to get it to work with the version of Java/IcedTea in Ubuntu's
> repositories, it won't.  Sun/Oracle's Java works fine, or if you want to get a version of
> icedtea-7-plugin 1.4.3 or higher (only available in saucy AFAIK).
>
> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Java_Console_(Ubuntu)

If emailed him privately and gave him the link to the install-java ppa. 
Works a charm. There must be some proprietary bit in Oracle Java that 
Iced-tea lacks. Whatever it is, I always seem to need it. :) Ric



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