The Cloudera Quickstart is a single-host deployment of the Cloudera open-source distribution, including CDH and Cloudera Manager. The purpose of it is to enable developers and operators to learn Hadoop and related software from the Hadoop ecosystem, to try out new ideas, and to test and demonstrate their applications.    Once you understand that, it's understandable that there's no easily-accessible guide to creating a multi-node hadoop cluster using the Cloudera Quickstart on VMs. While I believe it's possible to do, it would require a lot of manipulation of the configuration and deployment choices, and if one had the expertise to pull that off, it would defeat the purpose of the Quickstart as a distribution.    Perhaps some other member of the community knows how to do this and will create an article on how to do it or post a link to such a guide in this thread.       ... View more