Cloudera–VM Setup to spin up some Cloud Computing Power

Cloudera provides a demo VM for download, to try out Hadoop, Hive, and those other friendly Zoo animals.

https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/SUPPORT/Cloudera's+Hadoop+Demo+VM#Cloudera%27sHadoopDemoVM-RunningtheVM

If you’re trying to get the VM setup on Windows in Oracle VirtualBox

With the VM powered off, click on ... the VM Name->Details-tab>General-> Advanced tab .. and select the checkbox "Enable IO APIC".
Power on the VM.. and that should at least get you and running.

www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Miscellaneous Questions - Installing CentOS 5 in VirtualBox

Setup Virtualbox to run in Bridged Network mode

Fix permissions to run Hadoop jobs:

cd /var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/cloudera/
chmod 777 .

Hop right into Beehive with Cloudera/Cloudera userid/pw and try out the samples.

http://localhost:50070 

Try out Hue

http://localhost:8088

Setting up the stuff, end-to-end

http://gbif.blogspot.com/2011/01/setting-up-hadoop-cluster-part-1-manual.html

Changing the terminal window colors in VI (because blue directories hurt my eyes)

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/vi.html
http://ricochen.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/change-centos-ssh-shell-color/

See the IP address of the machine
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-find-out-the-ip-address-assigned-to-eth0-and-display-ip-only/