Cloudera Quickstart VM virsh domain configuration

cloudera-lab-domain.xml

<domain type='kvm'  xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
  <name>cloudera-lab</name>
    <uuid>a682109a-774b-11e5-b6a2-9b5b6cc0bf3b</uuid>
  <memory>8388608</memory>
  <vcpu>2</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type arch="x86_64">hvm</type>
  </os>

  <features>
    <acpi/>
  </features>

  <clock sync="utc"/>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <source file='/srv/vm/cloudera-lab/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.4.2-0-kvm.qcow2'/>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none' />
      <target dev='hda'/>
    </disk>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:12:34:56'/>
      <source bridge='lab0' />
    </interface>
    <!-- <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' keymap='fr'/> -->	
    <console type='pty'>
        <target type='serial' port='0' />
    </console>
    <video>
        <model type='vmvga'/>
    </video>
  </devices>
</domain>

My virsh domain configuration to run the Cloudera Quickstart VM 5.4.2.0 on KVM.
Of course, you will have to change the path to the disk image and the bridge interface to match you local setup. Concerning that later, you might want to switch to the virsh "default virtual network" which is NAT-based instead of using a bridge configuration.

In addition, you need a video card entry (<video>...</video>) in order for the VM to start correctly.
However, if you run the VM on an headless setup like me, you probably want to set the default run level to 3 instead of 5 by editing /etc/inittab to prevent X11 to start:

id:3:initdefault: