I have to same environment set up and same issue. Within Virtual box using the bridged adapter (so no port forward set up there) Using my network router which has 3306 forwarded the my server with mysql instance. This all seems to be working since we can connect to the database using the command mysql -u -p -h. Any other ideas on why sqoop fails and throws the access denied? Maybe driver or config related? I also have granted root access from any host '%' on mysql so don't believe that is the issue, esp since connection with command line works. ... View more