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I am investigating whether I can run Linux and Ontotext KIM on the Play Station 3. As far as I see I need the IBM Java VM.

Looks like Fedora 11 install under PS3 just fine. More here

Officially KIM supports only the Sun JVM. I have tried the KIM platform under the IBM Java VM on a 32-bit Fedora 11 on Intel machine. I have downloaded it from IBM web-site. The archive name is: "ibm-java-sdk-6.0-5.0-linux-i386.tgz". I also did fix a potential problem in my Relations framework in the development version of KIM 3.0 thanks to using the IBM JVM.

1. There seems to be a bug related to incompatibility with older com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream and IBM Java VM: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XSTR-379

The resolution is to replace the current XStream 1.2 with the current XStream 1.3.1
We did that today in the main-stream KIM 3.0 dev version.

2. The line:
KIM_OPTS="$KIM_OPTS -Xshare:off" in KIM_control.sh
prevents KIM from starting because "-Xshare:off" is not supported parameter from the IBM Java VM.
The resolution that allowed KIM to start is: KIM_OPTS="$KIM_OPTS"
I have modified the KIM bash scripts to resolve this problem.

Fixing these two problems now allows KIM to start normally with IBM JVM and it should also work with PowerPC version of the IBM JVM(32-bit iSeries/pSeries). The archive for the Play Station 3 should be "ibm-java-sdk-6.0-5.0-linux-ppc.tgz".

OpenJDK also starts KIM just fine and seems to work for now.

Also keep in mind that officially Ontotext KIM does not support non-Sun VMs.

Now the only missing piece is the Play Station 3 itself.