Hi, Have a quick workaround to start hbase on 64-bit windows
Launch standalone zookeeper (don't add regional servers in the zoo.cfg) and keep hbase.cluster.distributed set to false Hbase was able to connect to zookeeper server (probably a failover due to internal error in hbase itself, there is definitely something wrong in the way hbase handles its own zookeeper initiation) (Zookeeper instructions are in the usual place: http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperStarted.html) Using hbase 0.20.2 and zookeeper 3.2 versions performed some tests with sample table I/O all looks fine., hopefully this will keep you going until "self-managed" zookeeper in hbase is closely looked at cheers
