Installing Hortonworks Sandbox 2.3 – VirtualBox on Ubuntu

Getting Ready to install on Ubuntu using Oracle VirtualBox.

Prerequisites

To use the Hortonworks Sandbox on Ubuntu you must have the following resources available to you: 
● Hosts: A 64-bit machine with a chip that supports virtualization.

               A BIOS that has been set to enable virtualization support. 

● Host Operating Systems:  Ubuntu, 12.x,14.x or later 

● Supported Browsers: 

               Google Chrome – latest stable release.

● At least 4 GB of RAM 

   Note: if you wish to enable the optional Ambari or Hbase projects, you will need 8GB of physical RAM and will need to increase the RAM allocated to the virtual machine to at least 4 GB.

● Virtual Machine Environments: Oracle VirtualBox version 4.2 or later 

● The correct virtual appliance file for your environment. Download them from http://hortonworks.com/products/hdp/

Virtual Machine Overview

The Hortonworks Sandbox is delivered as a virtual appliance that is a bundled set of operating system, configuration settings, and applications that work together as a unit. The virtual appliance (indicated by an .ovf or .ova extension in the filename) runs in the context of a virtual machine (VM), a piece of software that appears to be an application to the underlying (host) operating system, but that looks like a bare machine, including CPU, storage, network adapters, and so forth, to the operating system and applications that run on it. To run the Hortonworks Sandbox you must install one of the supported virtual machine environments on your host machine, either Oracle VirtualBox or VMware Fusion (Mac) or Player (Windows/Linux). 

Here is a link for setting up vbox on Ubuntu : bigdatadays.

Installing on UBUNTU OS using Oracle VirtualBox

1. Open the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager Double click:(VirtualBox Extension-Pack)

2. The Oracle VM Virtualization Manager window opens.( I already had one VM file don't worry about it ).

 
3. Import the Hortonworks Sandbox appliance file: File->Import Appliance.

4. Click the Open appliance button; the file browser opens. Make sure you select the correct appliance. In this case, the top file is the VirtualBox formatted file. Click the Open button.

5. The Import Virtual Appliance screen opens.

6. You return to the Import Virtual Appliance screen. Click Next.

7. The Appliance settings screen appears. You should configure at least 4GB of physical RAM installed. You may wish to allocate more RAM to the VM – 8GB of RAM in the Virtual Appliance will improve the performance. Click Import.

8. The appliance is imported.

9 .Turn on the Hortonworks Sandbox. Select the appliance and click the green Start arrow. A console window opens and displays an information screen. Click OK to clear the info screen.

10 .Hortonworks(Cent OS) starts Running on VM & your done.

one last word from my side "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen." Just Try the Magic With in YOU.

VirtualBox_Setup on Linux

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

Sometimes simple things becomes complex and looks like impossible & Same happened to me. Simple task of setting up a Virtual-Box on My-PC showed me a real nightmare when I followed the documentation. I'm not saying that following the documentation and setting up Virtual-Box is difficult but It is tedious.

 Here are the Simple and easy steps to installation v-box on your PC

 Procedure:

The steps provided describe how to install virtual box on Linux.The screen-shots displayed are taken from Linux system.After installation machine runs the latest Virtual Box software.

 1) open web browser & type virtualbox.org . 

 2)  Navigate to downloads find your machine.

3 Go to VirtualBox 5.0.4 Linux hosts.

4 select the Linux version (ubuntu 14.x or Debian x) i386(32Bit) or AMD64(64bit)

Download the deb file.

5 Next back to DOWNLOADS page and download virtual box Extension pack for all supported versions.

6 Install the VM deb file by using the command : sudo dpkg -i file-path.

7 On successful installation Adduser to Vbox by command: sudo adduser username vboxusers.

when your done with it  Congrats!! Now you completed the installation of Virtual-box on Linux system & your Vmbox is Ready to use.