reading a file in hdfs from pyspark : <p>I'm trying to read a file in my hdfs. Here's a showing of my hadoop file structure.</p>

<pre><code>hduser@GVM:/usr/local/spark/bin$ hadoop fs -ls -R /
drwxr-xr-x   - hduser supergroup          0 2016-03-06 17:28 /inputFiles
drwxr-xr-x   - hduser supergroup          0 2016-03-06 17:31 /inputFiles/CountOfMonteCristo
-rw-r--r--   1 hduser supergroup    2685300 2016-03-06 17:31 /inputFiles/CountOfMonteCristo/BookText.txt
</code></pre>

<p>Here's my pyspark code:</p>

<pre><code>from pyspark import SparkContext, SparkConf

conf = SparkConf().setAppName("myFirstApp").setMaster("local")
sc = SparkContext(conf=conf)

textFile = sc.textFile("hdfs://inputFiles/CountOfMonteCristo/BookText.txt")
textFile.first()
</code></pre>

<p>The error I get is: </p>

<pre><code>Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o64.partitions.
: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.UnknownHostException: inputFiles
</code></pre>

<p>Is this because I'm setting my sparkContext incorrectly? I'm running this in a ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine through virtual box. </p>

<p>I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here....</p>
