To poll an IP address from a DHCP server, you must have a DHCP server accessible one the network segment.
Since you are building a virtual environment, it's not likely you did that first so the easiest solution would be to assign IP address until you get a DHCP server running on the segment.
Not sure where you're reading that from but that more likely means failure to have access to the IP4 network is fatal to the process that message is attached to, not kill the IPV4 process.
To help us.
From a command terminal on the instance, type in ifconfig -a and post the result.