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I've installed Genymotion and VirtualBox on ubuntu 16.04 LTS and everything goes fine. Genymotion works well.

Then I installed Genymotion Android Studio Plugin,but when I clicked 'start', it shows: unable to start VirtualBox

unable to start VirtualBox

Run Genymotion directly it works well, but Android Studio Plugin goes error,It is not like this: Genymotion error at start 'Unable to load virtualbox',how to fix it?

Watch this,run genymotion directly works well, but run android studio plug it shows: 'unable to start virtualbox.'

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If you don't have geni virtual box installed, install it.

Your error says that you don't have your virtual box installed in your PC .

If you have then you have not given the right path click on geni icon and set path of it where You installed

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Installing it on your pc won't be enough .You need to apply the plugin in android studio as well.

Go to File>settings >(search for plugins in your left side)>select the option plugin > browse repositories > and install geni plugin and you are good to go!

Restart android studio.

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Finally if i missed anything watch this video for full thing

Edit:If your are using a V.Box

Go to Network and Sharing Center > Change adapter settings and enable these:

  • Local Area Connection (if it's disabled)
  • VirtualBox Host-Only Network

I think that enabling the second will do the job, but I did the first anyways. read More details --------> Unable to start Genymotion Virtual Device - Virtualbox Host Only Ethernet Adapter Failed to start

Hope it helps.

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  • I've installed VirtualBox,run Genymotion directly goes well, but start Android Studio Plugin show error: 'unable to start VirtualBox', :( – xiaoxie Dec 23 '16 at 06:04
  • @xiaoxie have you set the path to geni from a.studio, i think that's the issue you haven't set the path and even its installed android studio cannot point where it is see my first image its need to be done after you add the plugin – Charuක Dec 23 '16 at 06:06
  • click on that geni icon in your a.studio and set the path where you installed it so it will work – Charuක Dec 23 '16 at 06:11
  • i have set the right path, see my second image, the virtual devices list shows right(i create one virtual device in genymotion directly), but click to start shows error as the second image. – xiaoxie Dec 23 '16 at 06:13
  • if every thing is okay are you ruining it on a virtual box? – Charuක Dec 23 '16 at 06:20
  • yes, see my first image, every thing is okay when running on genymotion directly, but show errors through android studio plugin, it say 'unable to start virtualbox?', but genymotion works fine... – xiaoxie Dec 23 '16 at 06:35
  • @xiaoxie change your settings as i said in my update. and for more you can go through that link as well, it should work :) – Charuක Dec 23 '16 at 06:48
  • the vitual device works well through genymotion directly, but goes error through android studio plugin. and the error is 'unable to start virtualbox', not 'unable to start genymotion vitual device'. not like that link. – xiaoxie Dec 23 '16 at 07:15
  • @xiaoxie try this as well >http://stackoverflow.com/a/39271123/5188159 – Charuක Dec 23 '16 at 07:21
  • not like that link. i have updated question content and images. "run virtual device well through genymotion, but goes error through android studio plugin, i have set right path and plugin devices list is okay, but start error" :( – xiaoxie Dec 23 '16 at 07:44
  • @xiaoxie last commented link is about geni with android studio,it says first run button to compile project and then... – Charuක Dec 23 '16 at 07:48
  • it`s not like my problem, mine is: start virtual device well through genymotion, but start show error "unable to start virtualbox" through android studio plugin. if the virtualbox has some problem, genymotion should goes error, but it is okay! only through plugin to start show that error. – xiaoxie Dec 23 '16 at 08:06
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Open Genymotion -> Settings -> ADB -> Use custom Android SDK tools -> locate your SDK.

You have to use the Genymotion SDK as that of Android studio.Try it hope it helps !!

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Try uninstalling your current version of virtualbox and install Virtualbox version 5.0.28 from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_0

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The way around the error is to:

1) Click on the Genymotion Device Manager in Android Studio. Once the Genymotion Device Manager window pops up, you will see your virtual device/devices, and its/their status should be "off".

Genymotion Device Manager

Virtual Device Status is off

2) Now, go run Genymotion outside of Android Studio.

3) In Genymotion, click on your virtual device to select it and click on the start button at the top left corner to start the virtual device.

4) Once your virtual device is up and running, go back to the Genymotion Device Manager window in Android Studio and click on refresh. You should see that the status of the virtual device is switched to "on". Now, you can run your code directly to Genymotion.

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