Genymotion Virtualbox issues

Somnus · 2013-09-20 18:11:23

I've got Genymotion installed (though it requires sudo to run, not sure if that's normal) and I installed it through the AUR. When I try to run the virtual device it created however, I get the error:

Unable to load VirtualBox engine.

Make sure that you have installed it correctly before starting Genymotion.

For more information refer to: https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/faq#vbox9

I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. My other virtualbox machines run just fine. I went to the website listed and installed dkms like it's suggesting, but the suggestion to do

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv status

results in it saying the command isn't found. (I did change the init.d to rc.d with no change)

Any ideas on what I might need to do here?

EDIT: Plot twist! I can run the android virtual device if I do it through Virtualbox, rather than trying to go do it through the Genymotion interface...

Last edited by Somnus (2013-09-20 19:38:32)

l0x3py · 2013-11-07 01:58:26

I am also having this issue.

I think the requirement to run Genymotion with sudo may be a permission issue on the folder under /opt. Also, the last command you gave (that comes from Genymotion's FAQ) is probably more for Debian-based distributions... You can check to make sure the vboxdrv module is loaded with:

$ lsmod | grep vboxdrv

Is your user account a member of vboxusers?

lugubrious · 2013-11-07 03:18:06

After I installed virtualbox (from the wiki) and genymotion I rebooted and then ran

$ sudo -u <myAccount> genymotion

which worked.

It's odd though, as this is what I get when I run ls -l, so I should be able to execute genymotion without root permissions

/opt/genymotion $:ls -l
total 6.1M
-rwxrwxr-x 1 1004 users 1.1M Nov 7 15:20 genymotion*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1004 users 9 Sep 23 22:10 genymotion-shell -> genyshell*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 1004 users 213K Nov 7 15:20 genyshell*
drwxrwxr-x 2 1004 users 4.0K Sep 23 22:10 icons/
drwxrwxr-x 2 1004 users 4.0K Nov 7 15:20 imageformats/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1004 users 184K Nov 7 15:20 lib64EGL_translator.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1004 users 252K Nov 7 15:20 lib64GLES_CM_translator.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1004 users 240K Nov 7 15:20 lib64GLES_V2_translator.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1004 users 320K Nov 7 15:20 lib64OpenglRender.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1004 users 1.6M Nov 7 15:20 libcrypto.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 1004 users 923K Nov 7 15:20 libprotobuf.so.7*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1004 users 343K Nov 7 15:20 libssl.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 1004 users 1.1M Nov 7 15:20 player*
drwxrwxr-x 2 1004 users 4.0K Nov 7 15:20 plugins/
drwxrwxr-x 2 1004 users 4.0K Sep 23 22:10 translations/

Edit: actually, if I just run genymotion from the command line, it works ok. I assume it's something to do with the permissions from the .desktop file (maybe)

Last edited by lugubrious (2013-11-07 03:20:53)

DerMauch · 2013-11-27 15:00:51

I've tried everything suggested here but nothing works.

gadelat · 2014-01-10 14:03:32

I too can't find solution

sudo98 · 2016-06-18 07:53:20

try installing virtualbox before installing genymotion, it fixed the error for me, because VBoxManage is needed by genymotion

vangsguten · 2016-10-20 08:51:34

$ sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-dkms

Then load the modules by:

$ sudo vboxreload

Last edited by vangsguten (2016-10-20 08:53:06)

WorMzy · 2016-10-20 11:59:02

Closing this old topic.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

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#1 2013-09-20 18:11:23

Genymotion Virtualbox issues

#2 2013-11-07 01:58:26

Re: Genymotion Virtualbox issues

#3 2013-11-07 03:18:06

Re: Genymotion Virtualbox issues

#4 2013-11-27 15:00:51

Re: Genymotion Virtualbox issues

#5 2014-01-10 14:03:32

Re: Genymotion Virtualbox issues

#6 2016-06-18 07:53:20

Re: Genymotion Virtualbox issues

#7 2016-10-20 08:51:34

Re: Genymotion Virtualbox issues

#8 2016-10-20 11:59:02

Re: Genymotion Virtualbox issues

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