Here's the setup: I have an older piece of remote monitoring equipment, known as a Badger. The GUI control software that runs on Windows is a Java app, the CD has a date of 2003 but I think the software is much older. The setup.exe
does not run on my AMD64 Windows 7 installation, I receive a 32 bit/ 64 Bit error, I suspect it might be a 16 Bit app (it's surely ugly enough).
Anyway, I tried to solve this with an XP VM Guest in VirtualBox on the AMD64 Windows 7 host. The setup.exe
runs fine but when I try to launch the Java application I get an immediate Windows error:
java.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.
If I click here to see what data this error report contains, I get:
AppName: java.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0
ModName: javai.dll ModVer: 0.0.0.0
Offset: 0009b4e
When I view technical information about the error report, there is the usual binhex gibberish but some of the text complains about being out of memory, bad superclass, bad index, class storage allocation error, among others.
Behind the error is the CMD window with:
Symantec Java! JustInTime Compiler Version 3.00.029(i) for JDK 1.1.x, Copyright 1996-98 Symantec Corporation
Later, at home on my iMac which also had an XP VM Guest in VirtualBox available, I installed the software and successfully launched it. I then exported the VM, imported it into my Windows 7 AMD64 host and ran right into the same error as described above.
Obviously, the Hosts are very different from each other but I'm wondering what specifically is the cause for this behavior, where it works on the Mac host but not on the AMD/Windows host?