Genymotion, "Unable to load VirtualBox engine." on Mavericks. VBox is setup correctly
I keep getting the following error:
I have reinstalled, deleted and tried about EVERYTHING to get Genymotion to work again.
I do not have the device I need, but Genymotion was PERFECT for the job, until Mavericks update I have been fighting to get it to work again.
MacBook Pro, Retina 13-inch, Early 2013. i5, 8gb.
I'm running version 1.3.1 for os x. I do have Virtualbox 4.3 installed with Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.0-89960.vbox-extpack too.
My Virtualbox starts up normally without ANY errors. I tried Environment variables putting vbox on my $PATH, all sorts of things. Nothing works!
I have no idea what to do anymore, anyone out there had similar problems and fixed it ?
EDIT: LOG:
Oct 28 09:49:36 [Genymotion] [Warning] **** STARTING GENYMOTION ****
Oct 28 09:49:36 [Genymotion] [Warning] Genymotion Version: Genymotion 1.3.1
Oct 28 09:49:36 [Genymotion] [Debug] Network request to URL: "/launchpad/last_version/mac/x64/"
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Debug] Genymotion server informs that version "1.3.0" is available from "https://ssl-files.genymotion.com/genymotion/genymotion-1.3.0/genymotion-1.3.0.dmg"
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Debug] Version: "1"
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Error] Genymotion is newer than the database... how is possible?
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Debug] Getting currently authenticated user from local cache
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Debug] Loading "vboxmanage" plugin
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Debug] Library loaded with success
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Debug] Chipset: "GenuineIntel"
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Debug] CPUID 0x1 (Intel): ECX= "7fbae3bf"
Oct 28 09:49:39 [Genymotion] [Debug] VBoxManage path (default value): "VBoxManage"
Oct 28 09:50:09 [Genymotion] [Debug] Can't run VBoxManage ("list", "hostonlyifs")
Oct 28 09:50:09 [Genymotion] [Warning] QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.
Oct 28 09:50:09 [Genymotion] [Error] "Fail to load vboxmanage plugin from /Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/"
Oct 28 09:50:09 [Genymotion] [Error] Unable to find VM Engine. Plugin loading aborted.
EDIT 2:
VBoxManage list hostonlyifs
Prints the following:
VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage: error: Code NS_BASE_STREAM_WOULD_BLOCK (0x80470007) - Stream operation would block (extended info not available)
VBoxManage: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start.
Solution 1:
I had the same problem and solved it by running the following command:
sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart
In later versions, the command is
sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh restart
Make sure you've unblocked VirtualBox's kernel extensions in System Preferences->Security and Privacy->General (You'll get a popup when you install VirtualBox).
Solution 2:
Eventually, you might not have anything in your /Library/StartupItems.
Using the following command helps :
sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh restart
It worked for me on two different Mavericks installs.
Solution 3:
Update: Genymotion's 2.5.1 release (https://www.genymotion.com/#!/release-notes/251#251) seems to have fixed this issue. (thanks for the heads up @Roger!)
For those that may be stumbling upon this a bit later, I resolved this by installing VirtualBox 4.3.28 (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3). The new 5.0.0 and 4.3.30 versions didn't work for me with Genymotion 2.5. None of the above solutions worked :(
It's also worth noting that at the time of writing, Genymotion's FAQ states the following:
However, for performance reasons, we recommend using version 4.3.12
Solution 4:
You need to restart VirtualBox service you can do it with this:
sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart
If in this path is empty you can use:
sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh restart
After I use Parallels I always need to do it.