Virtual Devices Settings

Genymotion Desktop includes a Graphical User Interface (launchpad) that allows you to configure, launch, and manage your Virtual Devices.

Managing virtual devices

Your installed Android virtual devices appear in the Genymotion Desktop launchpad dashboard.

Start a virtual device

Quick boot is available only under specific conditions.

> Warning: Quick boot is only available with QEMU hypervisor and it is not supported on Windows systems yet.

You can quick boot a virtual device using one of the following methods:

• Double-click on the virtual device
• Click
• Right-click on the virtual device and select Quick boot
• Click and select Quick boot

If quick boot is not available, these methods default to cold boot.

Cold boot

To perform a cold boot, right-click on the virtual device, or click, and select Cold boot.

Configure a virtual device

To configure a virtual device, right-click on the device, or click, and select Edit.

This action opens the Virtual Device Configuration Window. From this window, you can change the virtual device name, system settings, and more.

Summary

The Summary tab displays a summary of the virtual device Android image and hardware profiles. You can change the device name in this tab.

The Android image and Hardware profiles can only be modified when creating a new device.

System

This section lets you change system settings.

Hardware

• Processor(s): Processor(s) sets the number of processors used by the virtual device.

The default value is the recommended one for an optimal use.

> Warning: When defining more processors than default, Genymotion advises setting one less than the total amount of processors to leave one dedicated to the host and avoid performance and stability issues.

• Memory size: Memory size sets the memory space allocated to the virtual device.

The value must be below the memory of your computer and take into account the memory space used by your computer.

Genymotion recommends setting the values used for real devices (512MB to 2048MB) for optimal result.

• VM Heap size: VM Heap size sets the amount of memory allocated by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) per application.

The default value is 256MB.

Genymotion recommends using bigger values if you wish the garbage collector to run less frequently.

• Permissions: Permissions toggle root access.

Please refer to Root toggle feature for more information.

• Input options: Input options toggle the Android navigation bar and virtual keyboard.

Display

This section lets you change display settings.

• Primary Display: Primary Display sets the screen size and density of the device primary display.

You can select a predefined resolution from the drop-down list or set a custom resolution.

> Warning: You may experience display or performance issues when using custom screen size and density values.

• Advanced display options:
• Normal: Normal is standard single display.
• Multi-Display: Multi-Display adds external displays to the device.

Click + to add a display, or click - to remove one.

The number of additional display depends on the Android version. Additional displays are not available with Android 9.0.

> Warning: Multi-Display is still experimental and does not work properly on Android 13.

• Options:
• Rounded corner radius: Rounded corner radius sets the radius of the display corners to add a rounded effect.

The value must be set in density independent pixels ( dp ).

• Rounded corner content padding: Rounded corner content padding sets the padding of the rounded corner content.

The value must be set in density independant pixles ( dp ).

• Window style:
• Windowed (default): Windowed runs the device in a system window.
• Full screen: Full screen runs the device in fullscreen.
• Skinned: Skinned uses a skin as window decoration.

Select a skin in the drop-down list.

There are four default skins: phone-1 (9:16), phone-2 (3:5), tablet-gaming-1 (8:5), and tablet-gaming-2 (8:5).

You can also create your own custom skin.

• Advanced: Advanced forces the OpenGL ES maximum API version (default: 3.1).

Hypervisor Options

QEMU

Check or uncheck Enable QuickBoot to toggle quick boot with QEMU.

> Warning: Quick boot may cause various boot and stability issues. > Leave it disabled if unsure.

VirtualBox

Set VirtualBox Network mode.

• NAT (default): NAT is Network Address Translation.

NAT is the simplest way of accessing an external network from a virtual device.

NAT does not require any configuration on the host network.

For this reason, NAT is the default networking mode.

• Bridge: In Bridged mode, the virtual device is a full participant in the physical network.

The virtual device can contact other machines on the network. The virtual device can be contacted by other machines on the network as if the virtual device were a physical computer.

> Warning: In Bridged network mode, you must select the interface on which you want to apply the bridge. > The network needs to have a DHCP server or router to provides a valid IP address for the virtual device. > [](https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bridged)

Other

Right-click on the device, or click, for more options.

Apart from the options covered before, you can also perform the following actions:

• Delete to delete a device.
• Duplicate to copy a device.
• Factory reset to reset a device to factory settings.
• Generate logs to generate device specific logs.

Interacting with virtual devices

This chapter describes features that help you easily interact with your virtual devices.

Multi-touch gestures

Touchscreen

Genymotion Desktop supports touchscreen. Touch and multi-touch can be performed on your touchscreen, as on a real mobile or tablet device.

With mouse and keyboard

If you do not use or do not have a touchscreen, multi-touch can be simulated with the mouse and keyboard: | | Windows/Linux | macOS | | --- | --- | --- | | Zoom in | Ctrl + | Ctrl + | | Zoom out | Ctrl + | Ctrl + | | Tilt forth | Ctrl + | Ctrl + | | Tilt back | Ctrl + | Ctrl + | | Rotate clockwise | Shift + | Shift + | | Rotate counterclockwise | Shift + | Shift + |

Copy and Paste

The clipboard is shared between your computer and Genymotion Desktop. This shared clipboard lets you copy and paste text from your computer to Genymotion Desktop, and from Genymotion Desktop to your computer.

Clipboard sharing can be disabled in Genymotion global settings. See Clipboard sharing.

Drag'n Drop

Drag and drop a file to the virtual device display to install or upload it.

The behavior of dragged and dropped files differs according to the file type:

• .apk files (Android applications): APK files are installed on the virtual device.

If the same application already exists but with another signature, you can decide to override the existing application.

See Install Applications.

• .zip archives (flashable archives): Zip archives detected as flashable (i.e. containing a /system folder) are flashed on the device.

> Warning: Flashable archives may damage your virtual device.

> Genymotion recommends making a backup of the device (cloning) before flashing it.

• Other (regular files): Regular files are uploaded to /sdcard/Download.

Regular files can be accessed via the Amaze or File Explorer applications provided in the virtual device.

Display tips

When navigating within a virtual device, you can:

• toggle full-screen: Press Ctrl + Shift + F or Ctrl + Fn + F on macOS.
• resize the virtual device display window: Select and drag an edge or a corner of the window.
• fit to content: When the virtual device window is resized, black areas appear on the borders.

Double-click in one of those areas to fit the virtual device window size to its content.

Generating logs

In some cases, notably for assistance purposes, you may need to generate a log archive: 1. From Genymotion launchpad, navigate to Troubleshooting and select Generate logs. 2. Select the path to save the generated archive. 3. Wait until the archive is generated and click Close.

To generate logs for a single virtual device, right-click on the device, or click, and select Generate logs.

Virtual device shortcuts

Shortcuts can be viewed and customized in the Settings widget.

For shortcuts related to the use of Genymotion Desktop itself, please refer to Genymotion Desktop shortcuts.

> For shortcuts related to the use of Genymotion Desktop itself, please refer to Genymotion Desktop shortcuts.