Clint Thanks for following. I made progress from support at GitHub/packetpig. This VM uses cdh 4.3 and pig0.11. They reported that the posted packetpig lib is based on cdh 3.4 (pig 0.8) . I searched this site for earlier chd components and used that pig with more success. Now my question is 1) given I use  pig 0.8 in this vm, can I still use this with hdfs and map reduce in this vm. I set the pig.jar soft link to the new pig-0.8.xxx.jar but the shell cripts that set the CLASSPATH and PATH are complex and need some examples to test . I can run the examples if I use the %java -jar pig.jar .......but want to try hdfs using this vm (cdh 4.3)   2) do you have a vm from the earliar build? ... View more