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running eclipse on network drive [message #755602]

Tue, 08 November 2011 22:10

julius

Messages: 17
Registered: October 2011

Junior Member

hi,

i need to run eclipse on a windows host as a user, no access to admin.
i want all user data thats created by eclipse to end up in Z:\portable\eclipse-userdir

this works well with a installed java portable in Z:\portable\java and eclipse in Z:\eclipse\EclipsePortable

a shortcut with -vm Z:\portable\java\bin and eclipse starts.

now i also need egit, installation worked fine but when importing a project it says that HOME is not set.

i tried different ways of setting home and failed so far, its exhausting.
the last one i tried is:

Z:\portable\EclipsePortable\EclipsePortable.exe -vm Z:\portable\java\bin -vmargs -Duser.home=Z:\portable\eclipse-userdir

which doesnt work either

but how do i tell eclipse to accept arguments for the vm?

[Updated on: Tue, 08 November 2011 22:17]

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Re: running eclipse on network drive [message #755715 is a reply to message #755602]

Wed, 09 November 2011 11:25

Dani Megert

Messages: 3802
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 08.11.2011 23:10, julius wrote:
> hi,
>
> i need to run eclipse on a windows host as a user, no access to admin.
> this works well with a installed java portable in Z:\portable\java and
> eclipse in Z:\eclipse\EclipsePortable
>
> a shortcut with -vm Z:\portable\java\bin and eclipse starts.
>
> now i also need egit, installation worked fine but when importing a
> project it says that HOME is not set.
>
> i tried different ways of setting home and failed so far, its exhausting.
> maybe it's:
> java -Duser.home=<new_location> <your_program>
>
>
> but how do i tell eclipse to accept arguments for the vm?
Simply set the 'HOME' environment variable before starting the VM, e.g.
SET HOME=<my home for Git>
java ....

Note that EGit will use this for two things:
1) It reads the user settings (HOME/.gitconfig) from there.
2) It uses it as default location for new and cloned repositories

Dani

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Re: running eclipse on network drive [message #755794 is a reply to message #755715]

Wed, 09 November 2011 15:41

julius

Messages: 17
Registered: October 2011

Junior Member

youre right, putting these two lines in a .bat file works

set HOME=Z:\portable\eclipse-userdir
eclipseportable.exe -vm Z:\portable\java\bin

and setting the workspace location to the network drive of course.

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