Recently did an upgrade to ColdFusion 9 from ColdFusion 8 for a customer and ran into an issue with ColdFusion failing to restart after I was done importing the .car file I had created. In the coldfusion-out.log file I was seeing the following entry:
Error: no known VMs. (check for corrupt jvm.cfg file)
Checking out the jvm.config file, I realized that I’d imported the old JVM path that referenced ColdFusion 8 (and no longer existed), updating to the ColdFusion 9 path allowed ColdFusion to start correctly.
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Awesome finding buddy…..this will definitly help who is looking for migration….
Thanks for posting…
Thanks, Brent. That helped me out after I’d done the same thing.
The documentation says that .car files created from earlier versions of Coldfusion cannot be unpacked by later versions. Were you able to archive in CF 8 and unpack in CF9?
Thanks for the information – I am looking to do my upgrade to CF9 soon.
@Aaron – yeah the car will import just fine, but will bring some specific paths with it that could result in CF not starting.
Thanks Brent – we are going to do a few tests to see how it will work.
I appreciate the help!