I had the same issue, but my VT-X settings are fine from the start also no hyper-v issues. But still cloudera VM was unable to launch. Finally below trick worked out..   once I modified "vmci0.present " setting to "False" in cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.10.0-0-vmware.vmx VM started working fine. give a try..   vmci0.present = "FALSE"    ... View more