Linux - Unable to start the Virtual Device

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Linux - Unable to start the Virtual Device

Last updated: 7 months ago

Important

QEMU is the default hypervisor and should be preferred over VirtualBox on Linux: it provides better compatibility and performances. If you were using VirtualBox with a previous version of Genymotion Desktop, we recommend switching to QEMU hypervisor.

You are trying to run Genymotion in a Linux virtual machine, a server or a Cloud service (AWS, GCP, Azure, ...)

Genymotion Desktop has been designed to run in a physical environment, not in a virtual machine. For this reason, using a Linux VM or Cloud machine is not supported.

For more details, please refer to the following articles:

Your hardware does not meet Genymotion Desktop requirements

Make sure your computer meets Genymotion Desktop requirements. See What are Genymotion Desktop requirements?

You are using an unsupported distribution

Make sure to use one of our supported distributions:

Other distributions and versions, such as Kali Linux or Linux Mint, have not been tested and may not provide the necessary libraries.

You are using VirtualBox as hypervisor

QEMU is the default hypervisor on Linux and should be preferred over VirtualBox.

If you were using VirtualBox with a legacy version of Genymotion Desktop, and you are getting an error, we recommend switching to QEMU hypervisor instead.

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