I found that the hibernate-tutorial folder (provided on the VM image) was a Maven project. So I tried to run "mvn test" on it. It was missing an hbm.xml file where it wanted to see it. I found that the following commands enable it to run through the test target with no errors.
cd ............hibernate-tutorials wherever yours is located
mkdir -p basic/src/test/resources/org/hibernate/tutorial/hbm/
cp basic/src/test/java/org/hibernate/tutorial/hbm/Event.hbm.xml \
basic/src/test/resources/org/hibernate/tutorial/hbm/
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