title: Fastest way to setup Hadoop cluster using Cloudera
body: <p>Need some help here guys. I am new to Hadoop and I need to setup a Hadoop cluster fast using windows machines. 
  I am aware that I can use Cloudera for this but I was just wondering that instead of downloading a virtual box first, configuring it with Ubuntu and then installing CDH4 on it, can I not just download a pre-configured VM that Cloudera provides on the different machines and then network them? </p>
  
  <p>Is there any step by step tutorial available to do this using the VMs provided by Cloudera?</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be very appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Kumar</p>
  
  <p>EDIT : I have VMPlayer, isos of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, CentOS 6.2, VirtualBox and fast internet. Now can someone tell me what's the fastest way of setting up a cluster using CDH4 on 4-5 laptops I have in a LAN with windows on them?</p>