--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp	Thu Jun 18 08:44:28 2015 -0400
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp	Thu Jun 18 10:47:34 2015 -0400
@@ -3273,6 +3273,9 @@
 jint Threads::create_vm(JavaVMInitArgs* args, bool* canTryAgain) {
   extern void JDK_Version_init();
 
+  // Preinitialize version info.
+  VM_Version::early_initialize();
+
   // Check version
   if (!is_supported_jni_version(args->version)) return JNI_EVERSION;