Hi, Adding onto Ariel's response, enhanced Windows support for Hadoop is coming soon. You can track https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8079 for this work's progress.
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Sandeep Jangra <sandeepjan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Looks like windows is not the supported production environment for hadoop. > Just wanted to check how you all play with new map-reduce sample programs > using a single node. > Do I need to have a linux environment or is there some linux VM image > available ? > > Please let me know. > > -thanks -- Harsh J