I would like to write mapreduce code – ideally using python – on my apple mac to streaming it on the QuickStart VM.   Ideally my development setup is using my Apple Mac python environment & the QuickStart VM (later to be expanded to a cluster).   While there are many description on how to connect or stream code from within a node of the hadoop cluster or sandbox (e.g. from the NameNode etc.), I am unclear on what to do to connect just as a client.   E.g. I assume I need to install some hadoop client libraries on my OsX to talk to the Sandbox HDFS? Where do I get these libraries from? How do I install them? What type of python package works best? What IP address should I use to stream my python code? Any help – and any link to a tutorial covering this – would be great! ... View more