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I'm using jdk-9-ea-bin-b92-windows-x64-11_nov_2015.

Perhaps the installation directory's name causes the trouble (c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0) due to the blank in the name ?

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Best regards
Angelika ...


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Failed remote launch: com.sun.jdi.CommandLineLaunch (defaults: home=c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0, options=, main=, suspen
d=true, quote=", vmexec=java) -- {home=home=c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0, options=options=-classpath c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0/lib/tools.jar;c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.
9.0/classes -Xbootclasspath:c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0\lib\modules\bootmodules.jimage , main=main=jdk.internal.jshell.remote.RemoteAgent 49545, suspend=suspend=true, quote
=quote=", vmexec=vmexec=java}
        at jdk.jshell.JDIConnection.reportLaunchFail(JDIConnection.java:543)
        at jdk.jshell.JDIConnection.launchTarget(JDIConnection.java:509)
        at jdk.jshell.JDIConnection.open(JDIConnection.java:324)
        at jdk.jshell.JDIEnv.init(JDIEnv.java:47)
        at jdk.jshell.ExecutionControl.jdiGo(ExecutionControl.java:260)
        at jdk.jshell.ExecutionControl.launch(ExecutionControl.java:67)
        at jdk.jshell.JShell.executionControl(JShell.java:594)
        at jdk.jshell.ClassTracker$ClassInfo.getReferenceTypeOrNull(ClassTracker.java:81)
        at jdk.jshell.Unit.lambda$classesToLoad$3(Unit.java:265)
        at java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1387)
        at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$Head.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:591)
        at jdk.jshell.Unit.classesToLoad(Unit.java:263)
        at jdk.jshell.Eval.lambda$compileAndLoad$13(Eval.java:554)
        at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$7$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:269)
        at java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1387)
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:482)
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:472)
        at java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:913)
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
        at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect(ReferencePipeline.java:511)
        at jdk.jshell.Eval.compileAndLoad(Eval.java:555)
        at jdk.jshell.Eval.declare(Eval.java:461)
        at jdk.jshell.Eval.processMethod(Eval.java:385)
        at jdk.jshell.Eval.eval(Eval.java:127)
        at jdk.jshell.JShell.eval(JShell.java:350)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.processCompleteSource(JShellTool.java:1367)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.processSource(JShellTool.java:1356)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.processSourceCatchingReset(JShellTool.java:483)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.run(JShellTool.java:469)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.resetState(JShellTool.java:404)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.start(JShellTool.java:250)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.start(JShellTool.java:245)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.main(JShellTool.java:235)
Caused by: com.sun.jdi.connect.VMStartException: VM initialization failed for: c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0\bin\java -classpath c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0/lib/tools.jar;
c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0/classes -Xbootclasspath:c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.9.0\lib\modules\bootmodules.jimage -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_shmem,address=javadebug9094
0,suspend=y jdk.internal.jshell.remote.RemoteAgent 49545
        at com.sun.tools.jdi.AbstractLauncher$Helper.launchAndAccept(AbstractLauncher.java:193)
        at com.sun.tools.jdi.AbstractLauncher.launch(AbstractLauncher.java:132)
        at com.sun.tools.jdi.SunCommandLineLauncher.launch(SunCommandLineLauncher.java:223)
        at jdk.jshell.JDIConnection.launchTarget(JDIConnection.java:502)
        ... 31 more