What's the reason for “Error:Cannot determine Java VM executable in selected JDK”?

Question

I am using IntelliJ IDEA 13.1.4 and also tried the latest release 14.

Running SBT I get the following error:

Error:Cannot determine Java VM executable in         


        

Answer 1

I had to open Settings -> Language & Frameworks -> Scala Compiler Server

Then set the JVM SDK there, which was .

This was in addition to setting the Project SDK in Project Structure -> Project.

See the screenshot here.