Ubuntu – Genymotion unable to start VirtualBox (ubuntu 16.10)

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I'm trying to install Genymotion on ubuntu 16.10 here is what I did:

wget https://dl.genymotion.com/releases/genymotion-2.8.1/genymotion-2.8.1_x64.bin
sudo chmod +x genymotion-2.8.1_x64.bin
sudo ./genymotion-2.8.1_x64.bin

Then I installed VirtualBox

sudo apt install virtualbox

Then I tried to lunch Genymotion

cd /opt/genymobile/genymotion/
./genymotion

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I also tried with sudo

sudo ./genymotion

but no difference

Best Answer

Got and solved the same problem on Ubuntu 17.10:

  1. Install the latest version of VirtualBox for your Ubuntu release

  2. Fix the "missing headers" error:

    $ sudo apt install virtualbox-5.2
    [...]
    This system is currently not set up to build kernel modules.
    Please install the Linux kernel "header" files matching the current kernel for adding new hardware support to the system.
    The distribution packages containing the headers are probably: 

        linux-headers-lowlatency linux-headers-4.13.0-16-lowlatency

    There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root.

    by installing the missing headers:

    sudo apt install linux-headers-lowlatency linux-headers-4.13.0-16-lowlatency

  3. Rerun the setup process by running:

    sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
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