# Help connecting to Nakama (running in Virtualbox) after moving the virtual image to another machine
**URL:** https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/help-connecting-to-nakama-running-in-virtualbox-after-moving-the-virtual-image-to-another-machine/1672
**Category:** Local Setup
**Tags:** getting-started
**Created:** [May 27, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/help-connecting-to-nakama-running-in-virtualbox-after-moving-the-virtual-image-to-another-machine/1672 "2021-05-27T07:44:04Z")
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### Author:  [@vpirrottina](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/vpirrottina)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/help-connecting-to-nakama-running-in-virtualbox-after-moving-the-virtual-image-to-another-machine/1672/1 "2021-05-27T07:44:04Z")
Hi, I am a Godot developer,
I have installed successfully nakama using docker on a virtualbox linux ubuntu image. It works fine executing my code from a Windows host and connecting to the virtual machine with the nakama server installed.
The problem is that if a move the virtualbox image from my desktop dev machine to my laptop dev machine, nakama server can not start. The virtual image is exactly the same (it has also a static IP address), but on my laptop nakama server can not connect to cockroachdb printing the error message: "Error pinging database”.
I have tried many times using the followings:
sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up
and to clean the env:
docker-compose -f ./docker-compose.yml down -v
Could you help me with this problem?
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### Author:  [@novabyte](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/novabyte)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/help-connecting-to-nakama-running-in-virtualbox-after-moving-the-virtual-image-to-another-machine/1672/2 "2021-06-02T22:32:46Z")
@vpirrottina Sorry I think it will be impossible to help you with this setup because there’s a lot of different moving parts to your server set up. I don’t know anything about your Windows host, laptop server, or similar. Is there a reason you cannot just use Docker compose and run it against Docker engine? Why do you move virtualbox images across machines?