Virtual machine “Cloudera quick start” not booting

Question

I have recently download "QuickStart VM" on http://www.cloudera.com (precisely, the version of virtualbox) This virtual machine use centOS (and my computer is a macbook air) I can not fully start this virtual machine(and I do not know why) I have attached a screenshot of the most advanced state of booting

Answer 1

Press ESC and rest of startup scripts would run with that. Finally you would land on Cloudera screen.

Answer 2

You may try with the last version, based on CentOS 6.5 (It perfectly works on my iMac, vmware and parallels)

Etan is right, it can be pretty long to initiate CentOS when you are in this particularly point, especially if you didn't modify the default parameters of the quickstart (1 o 2GB RAM, 1 core)

If your macbook have more than 4GB RAM, try to start the VM with 4GB RAM and 2 cores, it should be better. Don't forget you need more than 8GB RAM dedicated to the VM to correctly run the Cloudera Manager, too.

Answer 3

I've discovered that when your screen appears to be frozen at that location, pressing [ESC] is apparently what you're supposed to do next.

Mine was there, sitting there for a few minutes, I clicked esc and then a whole list of things started checking and installing, then the Cloudera GUI popped up.

Answer 4

Had the similar issue. Fixed with:

1. Download cloudera-quickstart-vm archive.
2. Start Virtual Box.
3. Go to menu: File -> Import Appliance...
4. Choose cloudera-quickstart-vm-*-virtualbox.OVF file (from downloaded archive)
5. Follow hints and the new Virtual machine will be created using cloudera-quickstart-vm-*-virtualbox-disk1.VMDK
6. Enhance the new VM settings like: add CPUs, add RAM, etc.
7. Start the new VM, takes a few minutes.