To use the Cloudera QuickStart VM, it is suggested that you should prepare a 64-bit guest OS with either VMWare, VirtualBox, or the KVM installed.

If you choose to use VMWare, you should prepare a player compatible with WorkStation 8.x or higher: Player 4.x or higher, ESXi 5.x or higher, or Fusion 4.x or higher.

Note, 4 GB of RAM is required to start VM, with an available disk space of at least 3 GB.