title: jmeter class not found
body: <p>I am trying to run apache jmeter on my VM but getting this error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>D:\Users\1255592\Desktop\apache-jmeter-3.1\apache-jmeter-3.1\bin&gt;jmeter
  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/thoughtworks/xstream/converters/ConversionException
          at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
          at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
          at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
          at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver.main(NewDriver.java:257)
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException
          at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
          ... 5 more
  JMeter home directory was detected as: 
  D:\Users\1255592\Desktop\apache-jmeter-3.1\apache-jmeter-3.1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using java 1.7</p>