https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Cloudera-Quickstart-VM-fails-to-start-on-VMware-ESXi-5-5/m-p/18930#M7989 Are you able to try the VMWare image with the Player product and let us<BR />know if it works for you?<BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.vmware.com/products/player" target="_blank">http://www.vmware.com/products/player</A><BR /><A href="http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads/quickstart_vms/cdh-5-1-x1.html" target="_blank">http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads/quickstart_vms/cdh-5-1-x1.html</A><BR /><BR /> Thu, 18 Sep 2014 02:35:01 GMT GautamG 2014-09-18T02:35:01Z