I am with you too.  I am able to get the Hortonworks 2.5 version working without any problem.  Others versions after 2.5 are consistently behaving the same way.   The VM itself comes up fine - with the splash screen.   When I try connecting to this VM using the browser and the URLs (have tried various combinations, localhost, specific IP address, ports 4200,1000,1080, etc), the connection is unsuccessful.   I can get to the command prompt using the Alt+Fn_F5 screen.  I can login successfully with the root/hadoop combination.  It does not ask me to change the password the first time I login.     From within this shell, almost no command works.  I have tried 1. ifconfig 2. hadoop version 3. hive and a host of others.  A command not found message is what greets me.   From going through many articles, I understand, the later versions of the VM (after 2.5) are running these deamons inside a doctor and we have to connect to it?  I tried running a few "docker" commands and based on my little research, find that there is no docker container running inside this VM, at least by default.   I am stuck.   Any help is appreciated.   Thanks, Sriram ... View more

Hello Sheldon, Thanks for your message.  You can find the screenshots attached.     The top left displays the splash screen of the hortonworks sandbox.   The top right is the "Page Not Found" error when using the localhost:4200 URL.  Even if I use the ip address, the result is no different.   The bottom screen is the message I get when I run ifconfig!  It is a "command not found" message.  This is run from within the image.   ... View more