Unable to create Genymotion Virtual Device

Question

I have successfully downloaded and installed Genymotion and Virtualbox as well as a Virtual Device Image but I am unable to create a virtual device.
I get an error messa

Answer 1

I had the same problem because i had an old version of Virtual Box (4.0.0).
So, I uninstalled genymotion and the old version of VB,
and I installed genymotion with virtual box (5.0.28).
And Its worked fine.

Answer 2

Have a look at this blog.

Genymotion is previously known as AndroidVM.

As the blog stated:

Known bugs (same as 20121119 release) :

Hardware OpenGL/Intel HD/Windows : On most Intel HD drivers running Windows, the AndroVMplayer might crash (in the driver DLL) when starting Android ; you may have to restart AndroVMplayer an important number of times before it suceeds
Hardware OpenGL/WebView : On some GPUs (mostly NVidia ?), the browser and all apps which use the WebView component might show scrambled HTML content
AndroVMplayer now support window resizing, as well as fullscreen mode ; to use AndroVMplayer in fullscreen mode, you have to :

select “manual resolution” and tick the “fullscreen” box
press F11 (Ctrl+F11 on Mac) to switch to fullscreen when the player window has appeared
When starting the virtual machine, AndroVMplayer now check different things :

If your AndroVM virtual machine doesn’t have the “hardware OpenGL” option enabled, it can enable it for you before starting the VM.
If your AndroVM virtual machine first network adapter is not configured, it can configure it for you (as well as create the host-only network for you).
To summarize that, with this new AndroVMplayer, to use OpenGL hardware you just have to :

Import the AndroVM ova in VirtualBox
Start AndroVMplayer, choose your resolution and the virtual machine you’ve just imported
Click “Run” and it should work
You can still use AndroVMplayer with non-VirtualBox systems (e.g VMWare) but, obviously, you won’t benefit from automatic VirtualBox configuration and VM start/stop ; in this case, you have to choose ‘none’ as the VM name and directly type the IP address of your virtual machine.

Please note that, due to the change in communication, old AndroVMplayer won’t work with 20130222 OVAs and old OVAs won’t work with 20130222 AndroVMplayer.

Answer 3

Any of above solutions didn't work for me but I finally found it!

You should remove under folders in C:\Users\[your user]\VirtualBox VMs.

I hope it helps you.

Answer 4

I solved the problem.It was my mistake.
It works fine by running genymotion with administrative privileges.

Answer 5

1. If you have installed the Genymotion plugin without VirtualBox then make sure the version of VBox is compatible with the plugin, otherwise the plugin will not deploy the virtual device regardless of the OVA file.Install the latest versions of both if you are unsure

2. Once you verified the versions, you may need to either:

   a: Give administrative privileges for Genymotion via properties

   OR

   b: Change the location for the deployed devices via Settings/VirtualBox to somewhere more accessbile like D:/GenyMotion VMs/

3. If both step 1 and 2 doesnt work for you, sadly you will have to clear the cache via Settings/Misc and reinstall the OVA file.Hopefully your efforts will be worth it. Good Luck.

Answer 6

Disadvantage of deleting the deployed and .ova files is obvious i.e. you have to download the massive 200mb image again. A better choice is to :

• Open genymotion and open settings --> virtualBox --> virtual devices browse and set the path to a folder which can be completely accessed without administrative pivileges e.g. for ubuntu set virtual devices path to any folder in your home directory for example /home/user/deployed and for windows you can use a folder like C://deployed.

That's it . Now you can use your already existing .ova file again to deploy image to new locatioin without any problem.