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Getting started on macOS

Setting up the Cloudera VM on a Mac is very similar to setting it up on Windows. If you have macOS, we can set up the Cloudera Quickstart VM with VirtualBox on macOS. Perform the following steps:

Go to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and download the virtual box. Once downloaded, install VirtualBox in macOS.
Download the Cloudera VM from https://downloads.cloudera.com/demo_vm/virtualbox/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox.zip. The VM is over 4 GB, so it will take some time to download.

Unzip the Cloudera VM. You can do this by double-clicking on the cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-virtualbox.zip folder.
Start the VirtualBox and begin importing. We can import the VM by going to File | Import Appliance ...

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