Unable to access page with VMware workstation instance of homeassistsnt

Installation
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I had a VirtualBox installation of home assistant but I am wanting to switch over to VMware workstation due to bugs with updating which I heard isn’t an issue with VMware. It boots up and starts but I am unable to reach home assistant via the link. I’ve tried disabling all the virtual network drivers except the active one but no dice

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Is HA getting an IP address?

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no its not getting a IP address its just blank

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Well that would be fatal wouldn’t it :slight_smile:

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yeah, i just cant figure out how to get it to work. the network is setup to bridge. I’ve uninstalled it and re-installed it and nothing. when I look it up I get guides that are a few years old and its telling me to use a program that no longer exists for vmware workstation. a virtual network editor

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When I set up virtualbox, the HA image was a bit picky about what network controller emulation it worked with. When I got it right, it worked fine. Maybe this is also a problem with vmware. Just a guess as I don’t have vmware.

EDIT: added to that, does vmware create a terminal like virtualbox? You can log in there and see what networking is doing. In particular the ip command will display a lot of info.

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I have the same issue going on. In my case, the VM is getting an IP just fine, and it looks just like it normally does when I boot up, but when I try to access the HA address, the connection says it is refused. I even spun up a new VM, with native out of the box new instance, and I get the same thing, I get an IP, but the server for the UI never resolves. It just happened out of no where. Working one day, gone the next with no changes. I figured I could solve it by spinning up the new VM, but when that did not work, I decided to just try a virgin install, but that did not work either.

I went in to look at the supervisor logs. They look fine,

When I go to look at the Core logs, I am getting some errors and it shows that the core is shutting down - exit code 1

Process exit code 256
Core process received signal 15

I cant interpret those however…

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If core is not working then this is the reason you can’t connect. But without your logs, who can say?.