Genymotion Desktop requires a x86_64 CPU on Windows and Linux. Therefore, it will not work on ARM-based Single Board Computers, such as Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi or Odroid.

Pre-requisite

A Genymotion account is mandatory to use Genymotion Desktop. You can either launch Genymotion Desktop and click CREATE when prompted to create an account, or go here.

Then follow the instructions to create and activate your account. When done, simply log in with your credentials.

Windows

Supported Windows versions and editions

Genymotion Desktop has been designed for and tested on the following Windows versions:

• Windows 11 Home/Pro/Enterprise (64-bit)
• Windows 10 Home/Pro/Enterprise (64-bit)

Prerequisite

• Virtualization technology: Virtualization Technology (VT/AMD-V/SMV) is mandatory and it must be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI. For more details, see How to fix the error "Your CPU is incompatible with virtualization technologies"?

Recommended specifications

CPU	Intel Core i5 (64-bit), AMD Ryzen or higher
GPU	NVIDIA Geforce 8 series, AMD Radeon R600 or higher*
RAM	16 GB or higher
Screen resolution	1920x1080 or higher
Free HD Space	120MB for Genymotion + 1GB per virtual devices

*Intel display driver for Windows may not work well with Genymotion Desktop on Windows systems. Therefore, we recommend using an NVIDIA or AMD GPU for best compatibility.

Laptops

• Some laptops have a dual graphics processor (Intel iGPU + NVIDIA/AMD discrete GPU). This type of configuration is known to cause issues. To solve this, you need to force Genymotion to use the high profile NVIDIA/AMD GPU.
• 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).

VirtualBox

If you choose to use VirtualBox, please note that the recommended version is 7.0.8. We also offer an installer pack with this version of VirtualBox.

QEMU

QEMU on Windows requires Hyper-V (only available on Windows Pro/Entreprise) or HAXM (Intel CPU only) on Windows Home edition.

Linux

Supported Linux distributions

Genymotion Desktop has been fully tested on the following distributions:

• Ubuntu 24.04LTS
  
• Fedora Workstation 40 (64-bit)
  
• Debian 12 Bookworm (64-bit)

Other distributions, such as Kali Linux or Arch Linux, are not officially supported.

Prerequisite

• Virtualization technology: Virtualization Technology (VT/AMD-V/SMV) is mandatory and it must be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI. For more details, see How to fix the error "Your CPU is incompatible with virtualization technologies"?

Recommended specifications

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 or AMD graphics processor, it is highly recommended to use the proprietary drivers for best compatibility.

Hypervisor

It is possible to choose between VirtualBox or QEMU.

QEMU

Unlike VirtualBox, QEMU uses kvm which is installed by default with our recommended distributions. Therefore, there is nothing to install if you choose this hypervisor.

VirtualBox

We do not have an installer for Linux with VirtualBox; it has to be installed separately. Please refer to Genymotion Desktop installation guide for Linux for instructions.

macOS

Supported macOS versions

Genymotion Desktop has been fully tested on macOS Sonoma (14) and Sequoia (15).

Hypervisor

If you use an Intel x86_64 based old Mac, it is possible to choose between VirtualBox or QEMU.

QEMU

Unlike VirtualBox, QEMU uses Hypervisor which is installed by default on macOS. For detailed instructions, please refer to Genymotion Desktop installation guide for macOS.

VirtualBox

Please refer to VirtualBox recommended versions for more information.