Hey Marco, I tried the CDH5 VM today and it works fine -- but note that you need to start the Spark service after the VM boots. Just go to CM and choose Start from the dropdown next to Spark. spark-shell works fine then.
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Marco Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've wanted to play with Spark. I wanted to fast track things and just use > one of the vendor's "express VMs". I've tried Cloudera CDH 5.0 and > Hortonworks HDP 2.1. > > I've not written down all of my issues, but for certain, when I try to run > spark-shell it doesn't work. Cloudera seems to crash, and both complain > when I try to use "SparkContext" in a simple Scala command. > > So, just a basic question on whether anyone has had success getting these > express VMs to work properly with Spark *out of the box* (HDP does required > you install Spark manually). > > I know Cloudera recommends 8GB of RAM, but I've been running it with 4GB. > > Could it be that 4GB is just not enough, and causing issues or have others > had success using these Hadoop 2.x pre-built VMs with Spark 0.9.x? > > Marco
