Documentation for installing and running hadoop 2.2 on Windows

If we directly take the binary distribution of Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 release and try to run it on Microsoft Windows, then we'll encounter ERROR util.Shell: Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path.

The binary distribution of Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 release does not contain some windows native components (like winutils.exe, hadoop.dll etc). These are required (not optional) to run Hadoop on Windows.

So you need to build windows native binary distribution of hadoop from source codes following "BUILD.txt" file located inside the source distribution of hadoop. You can follow the following post as well for step by step guide with screen shot

Build, Install, Configure and Run Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 in Microsoft Windows OS

i was searching for the same thing. I found hortonworks interesteing. They dedicated themselves to installing hadoop on windows. I tried it out, but i still get errors on launching all the services. The only advice i have received in their forum was to delete everything installed and reinstall the whole stuff. I haven't done that yet.

As a prerequesite, you will need to have your windows running on 64 bit.

Try that out and let me know if it worked on your site. There IS A STEP-TO-STEP guide on the hortonworks website.

Cheers Jan