Unrecognized option: -role Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.

Question

I am trying to start up a windows node using the following command

java -role node -nodeConfig <%=@selenium_node %> -Dwebdriver.firefox.profile <%=@firefox_profile_directory %> -jar <%=@selenium_jar %>

Tried this too

java -role node -Dwebdriver.firefox.profile <%=@firefox_profile_directory %> -nodeConfig <%=@selenium_node %> -jar <%=@selenium_jar %>

or

java -Dwebdriver.firefox.profile <%=@firefox_profile_directory %> -jar <%=@selenium_jar %> -role node -nodeConfig <%=@selenium_node %>

Error--

Unrecognized option: -role Error: Could not create the Java Virtual
Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. The program will exit.

Could not find or load main class C:...\firefox\profile 

Answer 1

Your arguments are for your jar file and not for Java.

So your bash command should look like below.

java -jar <%=@selenium_jar %> -role node -nodeConfig <%=@selenium_node %> -Dwebdriver.firefox.profile <%=@firefox_profile_directory %>

 Hope that helps!