Running Opendaylight from Ubuntu

In order to build SDN testbed, I have installed VirtualBox to run Mininet and OpenDayLight controller. Hence, to install and run OpenDayLight, I have followed this tutorial. No problem occurred until I tried to actually run the command ./karaf from within the vm terminal.

It shows me the following message:

./karaf: 242: [: Illegal number:
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UnsyncloadClass was deprecated in version 10.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Ignoring option MaxPermSize; support was removed in 8.0
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/jvm/default java/jre/lib/endorsed:/usr/lib/jvm/default java/lib/endorsed:/home/odlc/distribution-karaf-0.4.0 Beryllium/lib/endorsed
is not supported. Endorsed standards and standalone APIs in modular
form will be supported via the concept of upgradeable modules.
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

How to fix this issue?

1 Answer

I am assuming you installed Ubuntu 18.04 Server when you followed the tutorial.

If so, I think the problem might be related to the version of Java installed. In 18.04 the package default-jre-headless installs OpenJDK 11. I tried with this and received the same error as you.

It looks like it does work with OpenJDK 8 and you should be able to resolve this as follows:

Remove OpenJDK 11

sudo apt remove default-jre-headless
sudo apt autoremove

Add Universe Software Repository (Required for OpenJDK 8)

sudo add-apt-repository universe

Install OpenJDK 8

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre-headless

Amend bashrc

Open the file ~/.bashrc and amend the line you added previously to:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64

Re-run the amended file with source ~/.bashrc and then try running karaf again.