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 know this post is old, but in case someone is searching google i think i should mention what fixed my problem. After the 3 steps from above the error message was gone but the screen still stayed black and opening an .apk got stuck on file transfer. It had something to do with a VPN application (in my case Hamachi). I just closed it and then the emulator ran fine. This post prompted me to do so: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/genymotion-users/network/genymotion-users/QAX_UrAzEn0/o947IXpsDuIJ