To answer my own question -    After a bit more digging into this I finally found the soltution on the developer's community itself. I wonder how and why I couldn't find it earlier. So, here it is -   https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Hadoop-101-Training-Quickstart/How-to-setup-Cloudera-Quickstart-Virtual-Machine/ta-p/35056/jump-to/first-unread-message    You need a Download Manager extension to save your file from corrupting while downloading the Quickstart VM. I never faced this issue on 5.10, may be due to connectivity issues as the links says. I use Chrome so Download Manager extension on Chrome web store helped.   Cheers!         ... View more