There has to be another way. Since Cloudera has yet to create a "QuickStart VM" for CDH5 I'm trying to create it myself, using VMWare and the CentOS 6.5 image to start. But I need to be able to give the VM for others to use so hard coding an IP address in the hosts file is not viable. Indeed in CDH4.4 VMWare image just uses 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost. ... View more