# IP Address not assigned to BalenaOS in virtual box

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**Category:** balenaOS\
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/ip-address-not-assigned-to-balenaos-in-virtual-box/27592 "2019-08-26T11:28:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![viveksaxena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@viveksaxena](https://forums.balena.io/u/viveksaxena)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/ip-address-not-assigned-to-balenaos-in-virtual-box/27592/1 "2019-08-26T11:28:47Z")

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IP Address not assigned to BalenaOS in virtual box

Attached To: Bridge Adapter

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\>VBoxManage.exe guestproperty get Ubuntu16.04 “/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP”  
Value: 134.141.244.137

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\>VBoxManage.exe guestproperty get BalenaOS “/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP”  
No value set!

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**Author:** ![samothx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@samothx](https://forums.balena.io/u/samothx)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/ip-address-not-assigned-to-balenaos-in-virtual-box/27592/2 "2019-08-26T11:40:48Z")

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Hi @viveksaxena ,  
there are instructions on how to set up balena on virtualbox here [https://www.balena.io/blog/no-hardware-use-virtualbox/](https://www.balena.io/blog/no-hardware-use-virtualbox/)  
I do that quite a lot and it usually works for me.  
If you use a development type image you can log into the console as root and inspect the device on the command line.

For a brigded adapter the IP must be supplied by your networks DHCP server or you need to supply a static network manager configuration. I can give you advice on how to do that if you want to follow that approach.  
I do notice on my own installations that getting a network address sometimes seems to take a little for vm’s - I notice that on ubuntu vm’s too so it is more likely a problem of virtualbox.