Great! Good luck on your exploration with the VM. 🙂 ... View more

Great to hear you both have gotten over the speedbump here. Best of luck with the Quickstart VM. 🙂 ... View more

Like @Sue, I just finished setting up of the Quickstart VM to see if I would run into the same issue. In my case I am using a Macbook Pro running OS X El Capitan. I mostly followed the How to setup Cloudera Quickstart Virtual Machine article to make sure I made no mistakes. I downloaded the newest version of VirtualBox 5.0.24 r108355 and the newest Quickstart VM (CDH 5.7) for VirtualBox from the Cloudera Website. In my case I did deviate from the artical's tip to use a download manager and instead downloaded using the Chrome browser only. Since I have a pretty quick Internet connection the download took less than 10 minutes. I unzipped the file with OS X's Archive utility and then opened Virtualbox.    Once VirtualBox was open I again followed the article instructions and used the “File -> Import Appliance” menu inside VirtualBox to open the downloaded *.ovf file. I chose to use the default settings rather than using expert mode and after the setup was complete I booted the VM. After a few minutes I was greeted with the Welcome screen in the VM without any issues.      If you have already checked the common issues lin the article, I think the problem is going to be one of two things. There could be an issue with VirtualBox on your machine which I would suggest checking their forums to see if they have any suggestions. The other option is a corrupted download which can be resolved by downloading the Quickstart VM again.  ... View more

Did you use a download manager to download the quickstart VM as mentioned in Cloudera's Community Knowledge article on setting up a Quickstart VM? It is possible that the file is corrupted.  ... View more

I'm sorry to hear that. 😞   Best of luck on retaking the test.  ... View more

Now I want to know how you did. 🙂 ... View more

Have you tried emailing certification@cloudera.com ? They may be able to help or perhaps @juddimal can advise. ... View more

I am sorry that you did not receive assistance in a timely manner @Vale. The Cloudera Community is a peer to peer forum so there is a chance of a post going unanswered. Cloudera employees do help out in their spare time as well but it is not their primary function. For users who are not currently support customers and wish to receive assistance from Cloudera via the community, there is the Cloudera Developer program as an option.    Best of luck with your project.  ... View more

Here is a thread about Edge nodes (aka gateway nodes) that should answer your question. 🙂 ... View more