Pre-requisite
- Genymotion account: An active Genymotion account is mandatory to use Genymotion Desktop.
- Internet connection: An Internet connection is mandatory to use Genymotion Desktop.
- A 15 days token is generated after signing in.
- It is possible to use Genymotion Desktop offline during 15 days between each connection.
- After this time, you will have to connect to the Internet so that Genymotion can verify your credentials.
- Virtualization technology (PC): Virtualization Technology (VT/AMD-V/SMV) is mandatory and must be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI.
- For more details, see the article "How to fix the error 'Your CPU is incompatible with virtualization technologies'?"
Windows
Supported Windows versions and editions
- Windows 11 Home/Pro (recommended)/Enterprise
Incompatible Windows systems
- Windows 32-bit
- Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1
- Windows for IoT
- Windows arm64 (coming soon)
- Windows server
- Windows 10 is no longer officially supported!
Laptops
- Some laptops have a dual graphics processor (Intel iGPU + NVIDIA/AMD discrete GPU).
- To solve this issue, you need to force Windows to use the high profile NVIDIA/AMD GPU globally.
- Make sure that your laptop is plugged to the mains and performance settings are set to "Balanced", "Performance" or "Game mode".
Hypervisor
- It is possible to choose between VirtualBox or QEMU (experimental).
- On Windows, the recommended and default Hypervisor is VirtualBox.
VirtualBox (recommended)
- VirtualBox is the default and recommended hypervisor on Windows and it needs to be installed alongside Genymotion Desktop.
- We offer an installer with Genymotion and the recommended version of VirtualBox on our website.
- If you already have VirtualBox, or if you wish to install it separately, refer to the article "VirtualBox recommended versions".
QEMU (not recommended yet)
- It is possible to use QEMU hypervisor, but it is still experimental and there are known performance issues on Windows systems.
- QEMU on Windows requires Hyper-V.
Linux
Supported Linux distributions
- Ubuntu LTS (64-bit)
- Fedora Workstation (64-bit)
- Debian stable (64-bit)
- Other distributions, such as Kali Linux, Linux Mint or Arch Linux, are not officially supported.
Incompatible systems
- Linux 32-bit
- Linux arm/arm64 (coming soon)
- Linux servers
Recommended hardware
| CPU | Intel Core i5 (64-bit), AMD Ryzen or higher |
| GPU | OpenGL 3.3 capable graphics processor or higher* |
| RAM | 16 GB or higher |
| Screen resolution | 1920x1080 or higher |
| Free HD Space | 120MB for Genymotion + 1GB per virtual devices |
*If you have an NVIDIA GPU, please use the proprietary drivers for best compatibility.
Hypervisor
- It is possible to choose between VirtualBox or QEMU.
- On Linux, the default Hypervisor is QEMU.
QEMU (default, recommended)
- QEMU uses KVM which is installed by default with our recommended distributions.
- There is nothing else to install with this hypervisor.
VirtualBox (not recommended)
- If you wish to use VirtualBox instead of QEMU, you will need to install it separately and select it explicitly.
- Please refer to Genymotion Desktop installation guide for Linux for instructions.
- VirtualBox hypervisor is still available for legacy support, but it is deprecated on Linux systems.
- We strongly suggest switching to QEMU instead if possible.
macOS
Supported macOS versions
- macOS Tahoe (26)
- macOS Sequoia (15)
Hypervisor
- On macOS, the default Hypervisor is QEMU.
- QEMU (default, recommended)
- QEMU uses Hypervisor which is installed by default on macOS.
VirtualBox (legacy, mac Intel only)
- If you use an old Mac Intel, it is possible to choose between VirtualBox or QEMU.
- VirtualBox is only available on old mac with Intel x86_64 CPU for legacy support: it is deprecated and we do not recommend using VirtualBox on macOS.
- However, if you still wish to use it, you can refer to Genymotion Desktop installation guide for macOS for detailed instructions.