# Cant login to balenaos running on virtualbox **URL:** \ **Category:** balenaOS\ **Created:** [August 21, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-login-to-balenaos-running-on-virtualbox/26113 "2019-08-21T09:48:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![viveksaxena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@viveksaxena](https://forums.balena.io/u/viveksaxena)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-login-to-balenaos-running-on-virtualbox/26113/1 "2019-08-21T09:48:14Z")
New to balenaos balenaos is running on virtualbox cant login to balenaos … cant find IP address ---
**Author:** ![gelbal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/gelbal/32/1109_2.png) [@gelbal](https://forums.balena.io/u/gelbal)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-login-to-balenaos-running-on-virtualbox/26113/2 "2019-08-21T09:53:12Z")
Hi Vivek, Welcome to the community! Have you followed a guide to install balenaOS on virtualbox? It’d be good to see the steps you followed so we could see if there is something off with the guide you used. Next, do you see the balena logo in your virtualbox? Does balenaCloud dashboard display your device? We need to understand better at which step you are stuck. ---
**Author:** ![viveksaxena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@viveksaxena](https://forums.balena.io/u/viveksaxena)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-login-to-balenaos-running-on-virtualbox/26113/4 "2019-08-21T09:59:30Z")
I followed this: > **[No hardware? Use VirtualBox to simulate a device for resin.io!](https://www.balena.io/blog/no-hardware-use-virtualbox/)** > > How to create a resin.io device in VirtualBox based on the Intel NUC device image. On my virtual box window balena os logo shows but no [dashboard.resin.io](http://dashboard.resin.io) ---
**Author:** ![viveksaxena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@viveksaxena](https://forums.balena.io/u/viveksaxena)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-login-to-balenaos-running-on-virtualbox/26113/5 "2019-08-21T10:07:38Z")
how can I send you the screen shot ? ---
**Author:** ![robertgzr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/robertgzr/32/1387_2.png) [@robertgzr](https://forums.balena.io/u/robertgzr)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-login-to-balenaos-running-on-virtualbox/26113/6 "2019-08-21T11:26:38Z")
Does the device not show up on the dashboard? ---
**Author:** ![viveksaxena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@viveksaxena](https://forums.balena.io/u/viveksaxena)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-login-to-balenaos-running-on-virtualbox/26113/8 "2019-08-21T16:11:08Z")
No Actually I haven’t done anything with respect to dashboard. No idea how to set it up. Please share any link to document which describes how to ---
**Author:** ![CameronDiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@CameronDiver](https://forums.balena.io/u/CameronDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-login-to-balenaos-running-on-virtualbox/26113/9 "2019-08-21T16:40:05Z")
Hey @viveksaxena I’m sure we can get to the bottom of this 🙂 Firstly, do you want your virtualbox instance to show up in the balena dashboard? Or are you just interested in running balenaOS on the instance? If it’s the former, this link should be of some help: [https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/getting-started](https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/getting-started) If it’s the latter, and you simply would like to find the device address to SSH into the device, [balena-cli](https://github.com/balena-io/balena-cli) should be able to help you, with it’s `balena scan` command. Please do let me know if neither of these resources help.