QEMU is the default hypervisor. It provides better compatibility and performance on macOS.
If Genymotion Desktop users were using VirtualBox previously, switch to the QEMU hypervisor.
The VirtualBox hypervisor is not available on the mac M series.
Genymotion Desktop is designed to run in a physical environment. Genymotion Desktop cannot run inside a macOS virtual machine.
Genymotion Desktop cannot run in a macOS server.
Genymotion Desktop cannot run in a macOS Cloud instance.
For more details, refer to the following articles:
Can Genymotion Desktop run in a virtual machine?
Can Genymotion Desktop run on a server?
Can Genymotion Desktop run in a Cloud service (AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure, Alibaba, etc.)?
Mac M4 and macOS Sequoia 15.2 compatibility
There was a compatibility issue with Sequoia 15.2 on Mac M4 and legacy versions of Genymotion Desktop.
To fix this problem, use the latest versions of Genymotion Desktop.
For more information, refer to:
I have upgraded macOS Sequoia to 15.2 and Genymotion Desktop has stopped working
Upgrading from Genymotion Desktop legacy (3.3.3 or lower) on mac M
Apple Mac M series support
QEMU Security & Privacy issue
If Genymotion Desktop uses the QEMU hypervisor or runs on a mac M series, ensure that the macOS firewall does not block local port connections.
We recommend the following settings to avoid blocked local connections.
When using the QEMU hypervisor, Genymotion Desktop uses the following local TCP ports to connect to QEMU:
5555 (ADB)
6379 (REDIS)
24297 (Audio)
24810 (Audio)
24800 (Camera)
25000 (Render)
22468 (Render)
Ensure that no other tool or software uses any one of these local TCP ports.
For example, the REDIS server tends to use local port 6379, which will conflict with Genymotion and QEMU. To fix this, you can either stop the REDIS server with the following command:
brew services stop redis
or change the "port" directive in your redis.conf configuration file, to make REDIS server use another local port.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is not available on mac M series.
QEMU is now the default hypervisor and recommended over VirtualBox: it provides better compatibility and performances on macOS. If you were using VirtualBox previously, we recommend switching to QEMU hypervisor.