Hi JohnnyW, I am running the VirtualBox image on my Mac and ThinkPad without a problem. Glad you were able to get the VM working : ) ... View more

Could be, I am upgrading VB to Version 5.0.24 r108355 to test it out. Will let you know what I find.   ... Okay, I upgraded VirtualBox to 5.0.24, downloaded a fresh QVM zip, and launched it successfully. If you'd like to post more information about what's going wrong, I can try to help.    ... View more

Hi Steve6c, The CDH 5.7 Cloudera Quickstart VM (QVM) has been running just fine on my Mac. I also have a number of students running it on non-Mac hardware. All of us are using VirtualBox. In the past I have used the VMware version of the QVM without a problem, too. I am running VirtualBox Version 5.0.14 r105127.   ... View more

Hi @Shr,   I have used both the VMWare and VirtualBox versions of the VM on Windows. Occasionally I have seen a student have some trouble getting it working. In Windows machines, it is usually because they have not enabled virtualization in the BIOS. If you have taken care of that, and your host OS is 64 bit, and you have 8GB of RAM, the default settings should be okay - I usually do not modify the defaults.   If you go to this link, you can download the latest version of the Cloudera Quickstart VM (5.5.0): http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/quickstart_vms/5-5.html (The instructions you posted indicate an older version of CDH, best to use the latest.) I am currently using Virtual Box version: 5.0.14 r105127 with CDH 5.5.0.   After you download, compute the SHA1 of the zip file. SHA1 for VirtualBox file is:  4f5a5f9719f5932bc94a15b77662455917d826d1 If your computed SHA1 matches the above, the download was successful. If it doesn't match, download it again (I have seen this be a problem, but pretty rare). To unzip, it is important to use 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).   One other problem I've run into relates to KVM. Do you have KVM installed on your machine? If you do have KVM, then download the KVM version of Quickstart VM and don't use Virtual Box. (I haven't tested this recently, but there was a time when VB wouldn't run while KVM modules were loaded. There's a work-around that involves unloading KVM kernel modules, but I would just use the KVM version in this case.)    ... View more

If you are using the Pig action, as opposed to a shell action, then your Pig job should run in a distributed fashion.   Here is a great blog post (recently updated for CDH 5) that shows a step by step example for running a Pig script as an Oozie Pig action: https://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/03/how-to-use-oozie-shell-and-java-actions/ ... View more

It seems that you prefer to install and configure CDH rather than using the Cloudera Quickstart VM.    I checked the supported OS versions and do not see Centos 6.3 listed for CDH 5.4. I recommend using one of the supported versions. More information can be found here: http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/downloads/cdh/5-4-0.html   ... and here: http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/installation_reqts.html   Instructions for Cloudera Manager Deployment, or unmanaged deployment, are here: http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/installation_installation.html ... View more

Have you considered using the Cloudera Quickstart VM as a first step? It is basically a single node Hadoop cluster that runs in a VMWare VM - it is already configured with Hadoop ecosystem tools.   All you have to do is download it, and launch the VM on your laptop. More information here: http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/downloads/quickstart_vms/5-4.html ... View more

I think what the earlier responders were suggesting is that you type this at the Linux command prompt:   hdfs dfs -ls /user/cloudera   You should see your new directory, pig-demo, listed as a subdirectory of /user/cloudera. Can you try this?   (Note: you can use 'hadoop fs -ls /user/cloudera' too, but 'hadoop fs' is being deprecated so best to switch to using 'hdfs dfs ...')   ... View more

Great! So glad it's working! ... View more