I am trying to start zookeeper on a remote virtual machine. I use this for my project regularly and I do not have any problems while starting the zookeeper. But lately when
Most probably Zookeeper server exited. If we are running it on a Linux box, use the linux commands. Some of them:
ps -ef | grep -i zookeeper jps
etc.
Also, try running it in foreground
zkServer.sh start-foreground