Genymotion error at start Unable to load virtualbox

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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

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

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

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

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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

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Close Android Studio  if Android Studio is running  Run Genymotion as administrator   that s all  simple

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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  gt  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

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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

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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

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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    Delete all previous virtual box adapters Go to device manager and click  Action     Add legacy hardware  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    Start Oracle VM VirtualBox and go to  File     Preferences     Network     Host-only Network  Click edit Set IPv4 192 168 56 1 mask 255 255 255 0  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  Now click OK and start genymotion

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

[windows] Genymotion error at start 'Unable to load virtualbox'

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