GenyMotion Unable to start the Genymotion virtual device

Question

When I run Genymotion, I get the following error:

Unable to start the Genymotion virtual device.

Unable to configure the network adapter for the v

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem as you, tried everything, but the solution is really easy:

1. Open Network and Sharing Center
2. Change adapter settings
3. Right click your Virtualbox host-only adapter and select Properties Enable "Virtualbox NDIS6 Bridget Networking Driver"

Answer 2

For windows users: Disable Hyper-V and its tools

If you are a windows user, the problem might simply be because of having multiple virtualization technologies in your system.

You might be having Hyper-V and its related features enabled. Just simply turning them off and rebooting your system can do you help sometimes.

Here is how you do it:

1. Fire up Run (Ctrl+R)
2. Type appwiz.cpl and press enter
3. Head over to Turn Windows features on or off
4. Find Hyper-V and deselect everything under it.
5. Press Ok and give your system a restart.

Fireup your genymotion and check to see if it works again. If there is an error prompt saying something like DHCP cant assign IP... just try restarting your genymotion application.

Answer 3

For VIrtual Box 5.x - the settings from above comments are set automatically

Now for the error:

1.Make sure that you have enough Processor(s) and Base Memory - so the PC can support VM configuration(I use 1 procesor and 1024MB for all VM's)

2.Delete any unused VM from Genymotion and Oracle VirtualBox Manager - seems to reserve their configuration, though you use it or not(that specific VM)

Answer 4

If as me you've tried everything above (especially windows 10 users ) and nothing helped here is what eventually solved the issue. The solution was ridiculously easy but took a day to figure it out.

1. Recommended to remove host only network adapter from virtual box, to do that open virtual box File->Preferences->Network->select tab host only network adapter->remove all (no worries when you start a vm from genymotion it will create new). Now open Genymotion and try to start your virtual device. Get the error ? that's good follow second step
2. (What actually fixed the issue) Go to Control Panel->Network and Internet->Network Connections, on there you should see an Ethernet network adapter that virtual box created ( it was created automatically when you started device from genymotion), so right click on it then Properties then CHECK VirtualBox NDIS6 Bridged Networking Driver, see image attached.
3. You're done. Start your device from genymotion, should work now.

Answer 5

Also make sure to update your Oracle VM Virtual Box. I tried everything but later realized that the issue was due to the use of older version of Virtual Box.

Answer 6

After you have updated the latest GenyMotion Version to 2.10 from 2.02...

1. Open GenyMotion
2. Go to the List of your 2.02 Devices
3. Left click the item and then right click on the menu to **Delete all your 2.02 Virtual Devices
4. Click the Add button at the top to add a New Device. Log into your account
5. Select the device you want. You can only select one device at a time
6. Click the Next button. Notice the Version number says - 2.10. There is other info about the device here.
7. Your device will start downloading to your GenyMotion Folder on the Drive **C. 8 After you download it, double click it to open up the Virtual Device like you normally would.
8. Repeat for other device you want

** C:\%Users%\AppData\Local\Genymobile\Genymotion\deployed