absolute beginner... where to start?

[#1]

I would like to go through the Cloudera tutorial so I tried to download the "Virtual Box" (for Windows) Virtual machine but I only got a .ovf and a .vmdk file.

A machine definition in Virtual Box seems to be a .vbox extension file...

Am I missing a step?

Thank You

[#2]

Hi @EricLeBouffon,

Thank you for trying out the Quickstart VM. I suggest taking a look at our community article How to setup Cloudera Quickstart Virtual Machine which should get you through the install process. 

Best of luck and let me know how it goes. 🙂

[#3]

Cool, will do.

Thanks

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Did you choose virtual box from the drop down menu before hitting the download button in the webpage . 

Make sure to go to the BIOS setting and enable virtualization before you kick off virtualbox or vmware . 

Once you getting in to the enviroment  you can use express or enterprise 

Requirments 

To use Cloudera Express (free), run:

sudo /home/cloudera/cloudera-manager --express

This requires at least 8 GB of RAM and at least 2 virtual CPUs.

To begin a 60-day trial of Cloudera Enterprise with advanced management
features, run:

sudo /home/cloudera/cloudera-manager --enterprise

This requires at least 10 GB or RAM and at least 2 virtual CPUs.

[#5]

I had actually been given a copy of the Virtual Machine... or so I thought...

Downloading it myself works a lot better!

Thank You