Hbase: How to specify hostname for Hbase master

Question

I\'m struggling to setup a Hbase distributed cluster with 2 nodes, one is my machine and one is the VM, using the \"host-only\" Adapter in VirtualBox.

My problem is that

Answer 1

Most of the time the error is coming from Zookeeper that send a wrong hostname.

You can check what Zookeeper sends as HBase master host:

Find Zookeeper bin folder:

bin/zkCli.sh -server 127.0.0.1:2181
get /hbase/master

This should give you the HBase master IP that answer Zookeeper, so this IP must be accessible.