--- title: Running JDK Mission Control on Apple M1 | daily.dev description: JDK Mission Control (JMC) fails to launch on Apple M1 Macs because it ships only as an x64 application, causing a JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol error when paired... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/running-jdk-mission-control-on-apple-m1-y6ymmlof8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Running JDK Mission Control on Apple M1 | daily.dev og:description: JDK Mission Control (JMC) fails to launch on Apple M1 Macs because it ships only as an x64 application, causing a JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol error when paired... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/running-jdk-mission-control-on-apple-m1-y6ymmlof8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/y6ymMLof8.png og:image:alt: Running JDK Mission Control on Apple M1 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Running JDK Mission Control on Apple M1 **[Gunnar Morling](https://daily.dev/sources/gunnar-morling)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JDK Mission Control (JMC) fails to launch on Apple M1 Macs because it ships only as an x64 application, causing a JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol error when paired with an AArch64 JDK. The fix is to download the macOS/x64 Temurin JDK build and configure it in JMC's Info.plist file using the -vm parameter. Since Rosetta handles x64 emulation on M1, JMC runs fine this way. To avoid performance loss, the x64 JDK should be used exclusively for JMC while keeping the native AArch64 build for everything else. Checking os.arch via jshell is the reliable way to confirm which architecture a JDK targets, since java --version does not display it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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