HI @sue   The problem is the very old "VT-x is disabled in the BIOS" I thought this is taken care of after cheking it with this application: "Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility" which i guess is bogus 😉   Thanks anyway for your support I will get the VT-x enabled and let you know if it works! 🙂     ... View more

My system is 64 bit 8GB Ram and running on windows 7 I don't know about how much I have allocated to vm All I have done so far is installing oracle virtual box and then tried starting the clouded vm on it. After clicking start button for the . Ovf file I am getting this error ... View more

Hi   Where did you got this error. Because when i try to start the VM it just shows me this error alert: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox     I tried installing using these steps: 1. Install VirtualBox. Go to to download and install VirtualBox for your computer. 2. Download the Cloudera VM. Download the Cloudera VM from The VM is over 4GB, so will take some time to download. 3. Unzip the Cloudera VM: Right-click cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox.zip and select “Extract All…” 4. Start VirtualBox. 5. Begin importing. Import the VM by going to File -> Import Appliance 6. Click the Folder icon. 7. Select the cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox.ovf from the Folder where you unzipped the VirtualBox VM and click Open. 8. Click Next to proceed. 9. Click Import. 10. The virtual machine image will be imported. This can take several minutes. 11. Launch Cloudera VM. When the importing is finished, the quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0 VM will appear on the left in the VirtualBox window. Select it and click the Start button to launch the VM.   After clicking on start button to launch the VM I am getting this error: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox   I have also checked the vt-x plugin through Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility application and it says it is enabled.   I don't know what else could be an issue   ... View more

I tried installing using these steps: 1. Install VirtualBox. Go to to download and install VirtualBox for your computer. 2. Download the Cloudera VM. Download the Cloudera VM from The VM is over 4GB, so will take some time to download. 3. Unzip the Cloudera VM: Right-click cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox.zip and select “Extract All…” 4. Start VirtualBox. 5. Begin importing. Import the VM by going to File -> Import Appliance 6. Click the Folder icon. 7. Select the cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox.ovf from the Folder where you unzipped the VirtualBox VM and click Open. 8. Click Next to proceed. 9. Click Import. 10. The virtual machine image will be imported. This can take several minutes. 11. Launch Cloudera VM. When the importing is finished, the quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0 VM will appear on the left in the VirtualBox window. Select it and click the Start button to launch the VM.   After clicking on start button to launch the VM I am getting this error: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox   I have also checked the vt-x plugin through Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility application and it says it is enabled.   I don't know what else could be an issue   ... View more