hi,
I have a RPI4 running home assistant on my network as stable environment. I can access it via IP address:8123 or via http://homeassistant.local:8123
Now I installed a new instance for testing on a virtualbox on OSX and is up and running - judging by the CLI interface
The network on the HA instance is Bridged
Question: how do I access it via browser? How do I find out its IP address?
TIA
Look at your router, or whatever device is acting as a DHCP server handing out IP addresses to see what address was assigned to the new instance of HA
that’s what I was heading to. Wish me luck 
I don’t know that much about networking but I can see there being issues if your second instance creates another host called “homeassistant” on your network.
which instance will you end up connecting to if you use ‘http://homeassistant.local:8123’?
you should use the IP address to connect to both to eliminate confusion.
or in the Virtualbox window of the current virtual computer on which you running home assistant. if it started successfully, it show your ip address
Hmmm… on mine it has no value there; is just blank
Was not able to find an IP address assigned by DHCP either (I have tons of them, so is possible an oversight)
Where shall I look into next?
thx
I have the same question. I want to install a HA on a differen PI for a friend, I have also the IP address my network assigned to the other instance, yet I do not know how to access it other than SSH which is not yet configured. Thanks
I have this now and it wasn’t bad at all. First I use DHCP or static addresses on each instance and I change the name, this in turn changes the resolver. For example, my main HA is homeassistant.local, my testing system is hatest.local, my RV is rvassistant.local, etc. I’ve not had any issues running this way whatsoever and was a lot of consternation in the beginning that was for nothing, it was zero effort to do this.