https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5-8-0-0-vmware-Unable-to-launch-on/m-p/44778#M39847 <P>Hadoop newbie here, so pardon the question if redundant and already answered elsewhere.. I did see a couple of other similar posts with the same problem that I am experiencing, but a different (lower) version of CDH.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>1) Downloaded the 'VMWare' image for CDH 5.8</P><P><A href="http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/quickstart_vms/5-8.html" target="_blank">http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/quickstart_vms/5-8.html</A></P><P>&nbsp;<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="CDH58_Files_Unzipped_Listing.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2086i57D19DB89B4BCA7A/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="CDH58_Files_Unzipped_Listing.png" alt="CDH58_Files_Unzipped_Listing.png" /></span></P><P>2) When starting up the VM, get the following error message</P><P><FONT color="#FF0000"><STRONG>This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot – please use a kernel appropriate for your&nbsp;CPU</STRONG></FONT></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="VM_Startup_Error.jpg" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2087i66FA8E34498F9476/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="VM_Startup_Error.jpg" alt="VM_Startup_Error.jpg" /></span></P><P>My guest OS is set by default to Linux.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I am on a Window 10&nbsp;64 bit OS. Please advise if the BIOS settings need to be updated?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:38:02 GMT ganeshNJ 2022-09-16T10:38:02Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5-8-0-0-vmware-Unable-to-launch-on/m-p/44778#M39847 <P>Hadoop newbie here, so pardon the question if redundant and already answered elsewhere.. I did see a couple of other similar posts with the same problem that I am experiencing, but a different (lower) version of CDH.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>1) Downloaded the 'VMWare' image for CDH 5.8</P><P><A href="http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/quickstart_vms/5-8.html" target="_blank">http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/quickstart_vms/5-8.html</A></P><P>&nbsp;<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="CDH58_Files_Unzipped_Listing.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2086i57D19DB89B4BCA7A/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="CDH58_Files_Unzipped_Listing.png" alt="CDH58_Files_Unzipped_Listing.png" /></span></P><P>2) When starting up the VM, get the following error message</P><P><FONT color="#FF0000"><STRONG>This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot – please use a kernel appropriate for your&nbsp;CPU</STRONG></FONT></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="VM_Startup_Error.jpg" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2087i66FA8E34498F9476/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="VM_Startup_Error.jpg" alt="VM_Startup_Error.jpg" /></span></P><P>My guest OS is set by default to Linux.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I am on a Window 10&nbsp;64 bit OS. Please advise if the BIOS settings need to be updated?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:38:02 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5-8-0-0-vmware-Unable-to-launch-on/m-p/44778#M39847 ganeshNJ 2022-09-16T10:38:02Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5-8-0-0-vmware-Unable-to-launch-on/m-p/44846#M39848 In the BIOS, possibly under CPU setting, enable virtualization: enable VT-x/AMD-V. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:29:25 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5-8-0-0-vmware-Unable-to-launch-on/m-p/44846#M39848 rufusayeni 2016-09-07T15:29:25Z