Hi Johndoe!   It's probably worth you posting a top-level question about getting things to work with the latest Quickstart VM.   FWIW, I have tested the latest install instructions along with our current release (Accumulo 1.4.4-cdh4.5.0) on the 4.4 Quickstart VM and everything worked fine.   Can you post your accumulo-site.xml somewhere that I can review it? ... View more