Comments on: Running the Cloudera Training VM in VirtualBox

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:31:32 +0000

In case facing issues with enabling NAT or other network adapters in windows host, we need to change ‘/etc/network/interfaces’ to include eth1 also as an interface by copy-pasting eth0 part and/or replacing eth1 and then using ‘ifup eth1′.

By: Shawn Workman

Shawn Workman — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:20:37 +0000

Make sure you set up the newly added disk as an IDE disk. My VirtualBox defaulted to SATA and it resulted in the following errors on boot:

Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! messages on boot.

Removing the SATA controller and adding the disk back under the IDE adapter solved the problems.

By: Mike Stoddart

Mike Stoddart — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:37:39 +0000

Thanks! This helped a lot as I didn’t realise it’s an IDE image, not SATA.

By: Zotov Alexey

Zotov Alexey — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:06:57 +0000

To support the network, you must specify the MAC of the network adapter in virtual machine (Settings -> Network -> Additionally). It should be taken from the file “cloudera-training-0.3.4.vmx” as a parameter “ethernet0.generatedaddress”.

By: Florian Gilcher

Florian Gilcher — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:03:13 +0000

Concerning JIMs problem: Make sure that the hard drive is attached to the IDE controller, not the SATA controller. The Image tries to boot from (0,0).

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:36:42 +0000

I’m running VirtualBox 2.1.4._OSE and I also received a similar message to MATT’s (“This kernel requires the following features not present on the cpu…”).

I was also able to fix this by enabling the PAE setting:
Settings>>General>>Advanced>>Enable PAE/NX

Thank you for the tip, Matt.

cheers.

By: Dalia Ahn

Dalia Ahn — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:58:53 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:33:17 +0000

This does not seem to work anymore, even with the PAE box checked. The boot process times out waiting for the root partition to become available. Even increasing the rootdelay to 5 minutes does not load the system.

I suspect this has something to do with the training image being 0.2 but other files indicated a 0.3.3 version. Any tips?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:58:21 +0000

Thanks for this posting. This helps overcome some of the problems I had before with running the cloudera image in virtualbox. When I first ran the virtual machine on a laptop with Windows XP host, I got an error “this kernel requires the following features not present on the cpu pae”.

A quick check of the PAE box in the virtualbox setting fixed the problem and the virtual machine started up.