I concur on the above, and to clarify:
Setting the various -D flags causes the platform MBeanServer to load prior prior to main() being called in GlassFish. This causes a failure, because the full GlassFish classloader structure is not prepared at that time.
As GlassFish does start the MBeanServer and a remote connector (see Kedar's link), you should simply connect using the "approved" method.
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