Genymotion does not start Android virtual device

Question

How to resolve Genymotion/VirtualBox issue, when can\'t start Android virtual device?

Bellow message is received:

Unable to start the Genymo

Answer 1

If you are using Linux, just goto terminal

sudo su

check processes running Virtual Box with

ps ax

get process id and kill them with priority using kill -9

like

kill -9 3217

and then start virtual box again.

that will help

Answer 2

You can also in kill the vm process in the OS and shut it off this way.

In windows Ctrl+Shift+Esc choose vm processes and stop the processes restart your gennymotion it should work.

Added by barlop
The following screenshot(while it doesn't involve genymotion), illustrates how, you have the main virtualbox process, and a virtualbox process for each running machine. If you expand task manager and look at the command line column, you see the parameters to virtualbox.exe give details about which machine it is, so you could see which device you were killing if you killed it from there (though I tend to poweroff the virtual machine normally and load a snapshot, I can see how they could potentially be powered off from task manager)

Answer 3

In Windows, if the device is stuck in "Stopping" mode you can shutdown Virtual Box and kill these two processes in the Task Manager (CTRL + ALT + DEL or CTRL + SHIFT + ESC)

• VBoxNetDHCP.exe
• VBoxHeadless.exe

Then launch your virtual device in Genymotion.

Answer 4

The simplest solution that works for me,

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Run genymotion as administrator

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Answer 5

go to Oracle virtualbox and check if the device's RAM exceeds the one from that of the Oracle Virtual Box (Ex: HAXM storage:1024 MB then device's RAM should be less than 1024MB)

Answer 6

The issue is that virtual device is in Saved state. You need to turn it off to state Powered Off.

You need to start VirtualBox.app and power off the device.

In the screenshot below Tablet device would not start

So you need to Start the device which is in Saved state and then power it off (by closing window) like this: