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