Hi all, We are developing a hdfs-based File system, which is HLFS( http://code.google.com/p/cloudxy/wiki/WHAT_IS_CLOUDXY). Now, we have developed HLFS driver for Libvirt.You can find our patch for Libvirt network disk (Online storage) here http://cloudxy.googlecode.com/svn/branches/hlfs/person/harry/hlfs/patches... But when i boot a VM from a base linux OS, which the OS have been installed into our HLFS block device at first. However, it(HDFS or JVM) says i have not set the CLASSPATH like following. [...] uri:hdfs:///tmp/testenv/testfs,head:hdfs,dir:/tmp/testenv,fsname:testfs,hostname:default,port:0,user:kanghua Environment variable CLASSPATH not set! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ fs is null, hdfsConnect error! [...] Actually, i have set CLASSPATH in ~/.bashrc like following. I have installed CDH3u2 for developing. I can do other hdfs jobs successfully. $ cat /home/jiawei/.bashrc [...] export HLFS_HOME=/home/jiawei/workshop3/hlfs export LOG_HOME=$HLFS_HOME/3part/log export SNAPPY_HOME=$HLFS_HOME/3part/snappy export HADOOP_HOME=$HLFS_HOME/3part/hadoop export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun export PATH=/usr/bin/:/usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/sbin/:$JAVA_HOME/bin/ #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JAVAHOME/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/server/:$HADOOP_HOME/lib32/:$LOG_HOME/lib32/:$SNAPPY_HOME/lib32/:$HLFS_HOME/output/lib32/:/usr/lib/ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/share/pkgconfig/ export CFLAGS="-L/usr/lib -L/lib -L/usr/lib64" export CXXFLAGS="-L/usr/lib -L/lib" export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/dt.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/htmlconverter.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/jconsole.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/jconsole.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/charsets.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/deploy.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/javaws.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/jce.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/jsse.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/management-agent.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/plugin.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/resources.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/rt.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/:$JAVA_HOME/lib/:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/conf:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/lib/tools.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/hadoop-core-0.20.2-cdh3u2.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/aspectjrt-1.6.5.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/aspectjtools-1.6.5.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/commons-cli-1.2.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/commons-codec-1.4.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/commons-daemon-1.0.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/commons-el-1.0.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/commons-logging-api-1.0.4.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/commons-net-1.4.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/core-3.1.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/hadoop-fairscheduler-0.20.2-cdh3u2.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/hsqldb-1.8.0.10.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.5.2.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.5.2.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jasper-compiler-5.5.12.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jasper-runtime-5.5.12.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jets3t-0.6.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jetty-6.1.26.cloudera.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jetty-servlet-tester-6.1.26.cloudera.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jetty-util-6.1.26.cloudera.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jsch-0.1.42.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/junit-4.5.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/kfs-0.2.2.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/mockito-all-1.8.2.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/oro-2.0.8.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/servlet-api-2.5-6.1.14.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/slf4j-api-1.4.3.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.4.3.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/xmlenc-0.52.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jsp-2.1/jsp-2.1.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/lib/jsp-2.1/jsp-api-2.1.jar I have reproted this matter as an issue to handle, which you can see http://code.google.com/p/cloudxy/issues/detail?id=37 for details. I have seen libvirt source codes for this problem, i find it may lead to by following problems. 1, Some changes made by gnulib, which i find gnulib has some files and funcs have done some jobs for CLASSPATH like csharpexec.c, javacomp.c, javaexec.c, etc. 2, After i compile libvirt source codes, i get virsh script, which has a variable named 'relink_command' that has been set some libraries and paths permanently. 3, Maybe some other reasons. Could anyone give me some suggestions? How could i solve this problem? Thanks a lot in advance ;-) -- Thanks Harry Wei