Why Genymotion doesn't work even if VirtualBox installed?

Question

Firstly, I have installed VirtualBox throught the terminal. After that installed Genymotion. My OS is Ubuntu 16.04. But Genymotion tells that I need to install VirtualBox. What can be the reason for that?

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It seems the same issue with a solution https://stackoverflow.com/a/40935696/1810128 — bistoco, Aug 31 '17 at 17:26
What errors do you get when running virtualbox in a terminal? — Takkat, Aug 31 '17 at 18:01
@bistoco It simply advices me to reinstall VirtualBox. It did not work for me — neo, Aug 31 '17 at 18:59
@Takkat I did not try to run virtualbox via terminal. It perfectly works, I checked it by finding it through the search and clicking on icon) — neo, Aug 31 '17 at 19:01
@bistoco virtualbox: /usr/bin/virtualbox /usr/lib/virtualbox /usr/share/virtualbox /usr/share/man/man1/virtualbox.1.gz — neo, Aug 31 '17 at 19:03
@bistoco what to write before /etc/init.d/vboxdrv status in order to execure command? — neo, Aug 31 '17 at 19:35
that's the command to see if virtualbox modules are loaded in kernel. My ouput is VirtualBox kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) are loaded. — bistoco, Aug 31 '17 at 19:37
@bistoco I put /etc/init.d/vboxdrv status on terminal,but it tells that there is no such directory or catalog. Check your command syntax pls — neo, Aug 31 '17 at 19:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 05 '17 at 05:49

I get this when I've used up all 128 of my host-only NAT adapters,

I've searched the web and there doesn't seem to be way to a) remove them all in a batch or b) make Genymotion use the same one instead of creating a new one every time it starts. (Although one page I read made it sound like that is supposed to be the case!)

The fix for me:

Start VirtualBox
Go to File -> Preferences -> Network and open the "Host-only Networks" tab
One by one remove the vboxnet(0 to 127)'s!

Although you could just remove one and then start Genymotion - but you'd have to do it again next time! :)

Now if anyone knows how to stop Genymotion creating them ...

This workaround helped me a lot. Are you sting removing all those adapters? Did you manage to find a solution? — darksoulsong, Mar 01 '19 at 15:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '19 at 15:43

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If you downloaded/installed GenyMotion first then installed VirtualBox. Try rebooting your system, then relaunching GenyMotion. After doing this I was able to get the emulator up and working.

answered Feb 14 '19 at 15:43

Christopher Adams

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 11 '24 at 02:40

For me it worked by reinstalling VirtualBox to the newest version BUT NOT with the .deb, but using the apt repos (if I was trying with official .deb through dpkg the problem persisted). So this worked like a charm:

remove virtualbox: sudo apt remove virtualbox* --purge

install virtualbox: sudo apt install virtualbox

Note: I recently was upgrading packages and after that I got this compatibility error. So I assume something messed up my VirtualBox installation and only apt was able to reconfigure it properly.

Why Genymotion doesn't work even if VirtualBox installed?

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