Using JPDA while offline

Greetings

I am having a problem where I cannot use JPDA if I do not have an internet connection on my laptop. My application launches a new VM using the default LaunchingConnector, and it works fine while the network is up. When the network is down, I get a trace like:

VMStartException: VM initialization failed for ... etc

It is a socket transport connection, and I am running Linux.

I assume the problem is that the socket transport attempts to access the network interface somehow. Can someone point me towards a solution?

Thanks

[573 byte] By [pvga] at [2007-10-1 5:30:34]