Preconfigured Single Node Hadoop Distributions

Setting up Hadoop can be quite a hassle if you are not familiar with Linux. Below are a short list of vm’s which are preconfigured with single node Hadoop distribution.  

IBM Big Insight

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/im/biginsights/

Pivotal

http://gopivotal.com/pivotal-products/pivotal-data-fabric/pivotal-hd#4

Cloudera  Quick start VM

https://downloads.cloudera.com/demo_vm/virtualbox/cloudera-quickstart-vm-4.3.0-virtualbox.tar.gz

MapR – Choose M3

http://www.mapr.com/products/download/download-mapr-on-premise

Hortonworks

http://hortonworks.com/products/hdp/

Wandisco

http://www.wandisco.com/hadoop/download

and for the brave souls who want to setup Hadoop from scratch (its easy actually)

http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/