Thanks Rob. Now I am getting listen_address in cassandra.yaml errors I mentioned before the Cassandra runs on VM VitualBox on windows 7 machine. On the ERROR text I changed the real ip address to "MymachineIP". What should I put on the* listen_address:* in *cassandra.yaml* file? Thanks.
short output: INFO 12:55:45,372 Cassandra version: 1.2.8 INFO 12:55:45,382 Thrift API version: 19.36.0 INFO 12:55:45,382 CQL supported versions: 2.0.0,3.0.5 (default: 3.0.5) INFO 12:55:45,677 Loading persisted ring state INFO 12:55:45,696 Starting up server gossip INFO 12:55:45,861 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-local@28263177(251/251 serialized/live bytes, 9 ops) INFO 12:55:45,866 Writing Memtable-local@28263177(251/251 serialized/live bytes, 9 ops) INFO 12:55:45,961 Completed flushing /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/local/system-local-ic-18-Data.db (240 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=1375991740291, position=53949) INFO 12:55:46,663 GC for Copy: 292 ms for 1 collections, 7605200 used; max is 253558784 ERROR 12:55:46,994 Fatal configuration error org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException: Unable to bind to address /MymachineIP:7000. Set listen_address in cassandra.yaml to an interface you can bind to, e.g., your private IP address on EC2 at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessagingService.getServerSocket(MessagingService.java:444) at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessagingService.listen(MessagingService.java:390) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.joinTokenRing(StorageService.java:589) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:554) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:451) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:348) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:447) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:490) Unable to bind to address /MymachineIP:7000. Set listen_address in cassandra.yaml to an interface you can bind to, e.g., your private IP address on EC2 Fatal configuration error; unable to start server. See log for stacktrace. ERROR 12:55:47,059 Exception in thread Thread[StorageServiceShutdownHook,5,main] java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.stopRPCServer(StorageService.java:321) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.shutdownClientServers(StorageService.java:370) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.access$000(StorageService.java:88) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService$1.runMayThrow(StorageService.java:519) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)