I used these instructions (on CDH 5.8 quickstart VM) - https://zeppelin.apache.org/docs/0.7.1/interpreter/hive.html
But cannot get hive interpreter to work (this used to work in 0.6.1) java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:190) at org.apache.zeppelin.jdbc.JDBCInterpreter.createConnectionPool(JDBCInterpreter.java:341) at org.apache.zeppelin.jdbc.JDBCInterpreter.getConnectionFromPool(JDBCInterpreter.java:352) at org.apache.zeppelin.jdbc.JDBCInterpreter.getConnection(JDBCInterpreter.java:372) at org.apache.zeppelin.jdbc.JDBCInterpreter.executeSql(JDBCInterpreter.java:564) at org.apache.zeppelin.jdbc.JDBCInterpreter.interpret(JDBCInterpreter.java:692) at org.apache.zeppelin.interpreter.LazyOpenInterpreter.interpret(LazyOpenInterpreter.java:95) at org.apache.zeppelin.interpreter.remote.RemoteInterpreterServer$InterpretJob.jobRun(RemoteInterpreterServer.java:490) at org.apache.zeppelin.scheduler.Job.run(Job.java:175) at org.apache.zeppelin.scheduler.ParallelScheduler$JobRunner.run(ParallelScheduler.java:162) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:292) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Thanks, Abhi -- Abhi Basu