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Cristian Gonçalves
Cristian Gonçalves

Reputation: 912

Genymotion error at start 'Unable to load virtualbox'

I've installed the genymotion+virtualbox package on Windows 7 64-bit and everything goes fine... But when I start Genymotion it presents me an error message Unable to load virtualbox.

VirtualBox is installed and I'm able to start it manually. I've tried to install the packages separately, updated virtualbox to 4.2.16 but nothing worked.

I've already read genymotion FAQ but it did not help.

Upvotes: 34

Views: 104660

Answers (15)

MANISH PATHAK
MANISH PATHAK

Reputation: 2650

FIXED SOLUTION

Run below command in terminal, It denotes where is your virtualbox install on MAC/Linux.

    $ which vboxmanage
    /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage

Genymotion search the virtualBox in /usr/bin/VBoxManage while it is located to /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage , you need to create the symlink to that location , Run in terminal to fix it.

    sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage /usr/bin/VBoxManage

Upvotes: 3

Andrew Lam
Andrew Lam

Reputation: 3804

  1. Close Android Studio (if Android Studio is running)
  2. Run Genymotion as administrator

that's all! simple.

Upvotes: 0

Mustansar Saeed
Mustansar Saeed

Reputation: 2790

I also experienced this when I upgraded operating system from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Un-installing Virtualbox and re-installing worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

persianLife
persianLife

Reputation: 1225

I have spend all day to solve this error since none of the answers worked for me.

I found out that oracle virtual box doesn't install the network adapter correctly in windows 8.1

Solution:

  1. Delete all previous virtual box adapters
  2. Go to device manager and click "Action" > "Add legacy hardware"
  3. Install the oracle virtual box adapters manually (my path was C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\network\netadp\VBoxNetAdp.inf)

Now that virtual box adapters is installed correctly, it needs to be setup correctly. (the following solution is like many other solution in here)

  1. Start Oracle VM VirtualBox and go to "File" > "Preferences" > "Network" > "Host-only Network"
  2. Click edit
  3. Set IPv4 192.168.56.1 mask 255.255.255.0
  4. Click DHCP Server tab and set server adr: 192.168.56.100 server Mask: 255.255.255.0 low address bound: 192.168.56.101 upper adress bound 192.168.56.254
  5. Now click OK and start genymotion

Upvotes: 27

Stephen Senkomago Musoke
Stephen Senkomago Musoke

Reputation: 3523

Actually it seems like Genymotion has an issue with the newer versions of Virtual box, I had the same issue on my Mac but when I downgraded to 4.3.30 it worked like a charm.

Upvotes: 2

Bamerza
Bamerza

Reputation: 1375

Verify that GenyMotion is in your PATH environment variable. I noticed mine was not auto populated, so once I entered it, it was fine.

Upvotes: 1

Oleg Tretiakov
Oleg Tretiakov

Reputation: 159

Open Genymotion in Windows as an administrator. My Genymotion works only in this mode

Upvotes: 3

user2469133
user2469133

Reputation: 1970

Don't ask what this has to do with that , but by right clicking the genymotion application file and changing to compatibility to Vista solved the problem!

Upvotes: 0

Rohan Kandwal
Rohan Kandwal

Reputation: 9326

I am using Intellij IDEA and same error happened to me, I found that the path to genymotion folder was not configured properly. Either open settings using File > Settings or press Ctrl + Alt + S then in IDE Settings check if the path to the genymotion folder is correct or not.

Since Android Studio are almost similar to Intellij IDEA so you can apply the same steps above to Android Studio as well.

genymotion settings

Upvotes: 2

Jean Lestang
Jean Lestang

Reputation: 861

For Windows there are 2 installers. Did you use the bundle containing VirtualBox installer? It is call Windows 32/64 bits (with VirtualBox).

Upvotes: 0

numediaweb
numediaweb

Reputation: 17010

What worked for me in Windows 7 is to remove the Host-only Network (in Oracle virtual box Preferences menu [CTRL+G] -> Network -> Host-only Networks). Genymotion will recreate it automatically at the next virtual device start. For the record; I'm using a Nexus S 2.3.7 virtual device.

Upvotes: 3

Guillermo Gutiérrez
Guillermo Gutiérrez

Reputation: 17789

In Linux at least, I had to restart VirtualBox, running this command on terminal:

/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox restart

Seems to be the same on Mac OS X.

Upvotes: 6

Tomer
Tomer

Reputation: 3297

Try closing Android Studio/Eclipse if it's open. It worked for me.

Upvotes: 7

mbwasi
mbwasi

Reputation: 4207

Had the same problem, Uninstall Genymotion, install VirtualBox stand alone from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads then install the Genymotion package without VirtualBox.

Upvotes: 11

RafalManka
RafalManka

Reputation: 366

try launching it via android-studio/eclipse plugin. Thats how I had similar issue when launching it from ubuntu.

Upvotes: -3

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