Ubuntu – Can’t get Virtualbox to work with Genymotion

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I started genymotion and got the following error-message:

Unable to load VirtualBox engine.

Make sure that it is properly installed before starting Genymotion.

For more information, please refer to https://www.genymotion.com/#!/support?chapter=vbox#faq

Genymotion log archive has been saved in: /home/seel93/genymotion-log.zip
Please contact Genymotion support for more help.

I've looked over FAQ with no luck even though I've followed their walkthrough for Linux.

This command:

sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh status

gives the following output:

VirtualBox kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) are loaded.

Restarting Virtualbox did not do the trick either as mentioned in many similar posts. Any help would be much appriciated.

Best Answer

I'm using xubuntu 16.04 LTS and i was having the same error i tried this and worked: 

sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup

it should say this:

Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done. Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...done. Starting VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.

and then you can check if that worked using:

sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh status

then try to run again genymotion :) i hope that helps!

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