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This worked for me (groovy on Ubuntu 12.04, 64-bit, running in Parallels 8 on OSX 10.8.3)

Install Ubuntu 12.04
Install groovy following these instructions
sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-openni-camera
sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-openni-launch

(This appears to be the same as @Stephane, but w/o the NITE steps)

To check that it worked:

roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch
rosrun image_view image_view image:=/camera/rgb/image_color

This worked for me (groovy on Ubuntu 12.04, 64-bit, running in Parallels 8 on OSX 10.8.3)

Install Ubuntu 12.04
Install groovy following these instructions
sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-openni-camera
sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-openni-launch

(This appears to be the same as @Stephane, but w/o the NITE steps)

To check that it worked:

roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch
rosrun image_view image_view image:=/camera/rgb/image_color

If you're getting "no devices connected", you may want to see if your computer has detected the kinect. The output of 'lsusb' or 'dmesg' may be helpful. Also - for a ROS-less way of testing your computer's connection with the kinect:

sudo apt-get install freenect
freenect-glview