Hi @gdelon, that worked, thanks ! It’s weird though, CentOS shell seems to do something with the unquoted string, I can’t see what. It also works if you quote only the semi-colon part of the url. Semi-colon is the culprit. Ok 🙂 beeline -u jdbc:hive2://sandbox.hortonworks.com:2181/';serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2' So it works from within the docker inside the VM. So at least the configuration is correct for this case. Now how could the same jdbc url work from outside that box ? Any clue anyone ? Thanks ... View more