Accessing HA on virtual machine problem

Installation
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I now have HA running on a VM in Oracle Virtualbox…

…but I can’t access it.

Looking at info from the CL I see:

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My Mac, that is running VirtualBox is at 10.0.1.232. I’m assuming that something is wrong with the network settings on the VM but I’m not sure where to look.

Any ideas?

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Do you have the ‘bridged’ network adapter fot your VM?

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Thanks for the reply. Here’ what I have set up:

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Then you should connect the cable, i think. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’m running on a Macbook with no ethernet adapter. Can this not work over WiFi?

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I mean the virtual ‘cable’ in the VM.
Auswahl_331

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OK. I’ve done that and restarted the VM. It still thinks it’s at 172.30.32.1

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Those IP’s are from docker containers.
The essential part is that the VM gets an IP from you router and then HA should be accessible over that IP.

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So, are you saying that it will have it’s own IP and not the IP of the Mac it’s running on?

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That depends on the network setting for the VM.

  • bridged: The VM acts like a physical device in your home network. Gets an IP from your router.
  • nat: VM gets an IP from your macbook, can access the network, but is not accessible from the network.
  • …

I think you should first google a little about VirtualBox networks an how they work.

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Got it! I’m in. I searched in UniFi controller for the VM MAC address and found it’s IP.

Thank you for your help.

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I’m all up and running with it now and the VM auto starts on Mac reboot!

What I can’t figure is how to autostart HA from within the VM. I still have to login as root to get HA to appear.

Any ideas?

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That’s not normal.
I created a VM with the vdi image for testing a few days ago, in VBox on Ubuntu 18.04.
No issues with HA autostart.

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