Ok, so same test environment moved to an Intel, i7 920 box and the openjdk install works as well. That seems to point strongly into some interaction issue with the hypervisor/dom0. Hm, I thought I went for CentOS 5.4 but apparently I ended up with 5.5 running a 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen kernel in dom0.
Ok, so same test environment moved to an Intel, i7 920 box and the openjdk install works as well. That seems to point strongly into some interaction issue with the hypervisor/dom0. Hm, I thought I went for CentOS 5.4 but apparently I ended up with 5.5 running a 2.6.18- 194.32. 1.el5xen kernel in dom0.