What are Genymotion Desktop requirements?

Pre-requisite

• Genymotion account: an active 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.
• Internet connection: an Internet connection is mandatory to use Genymotion Desktop.

  Note

  A 15 days token is generated after signing in, so it is possible to use Genymotion Desktop offline during 15 days between each connections. After this time, though, you will have to connect to the Internet so that Genymotion can verify your credentials.

Windows

Supported Windows versions and editions

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

• Windows 10 or 11 (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 or higher, 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 (recommended)

VirtualBox is the default and recommended hypervisor on Windows and it needs to be installed alongside Genymotion Desktop. Thankfully, we offer an installer with Genymotion and the recommended version of VirtualBox on our website.

However, if you already have VirtualBox, or if you wish to install it separately, you can refer to the following article: VirtualBox recommended versions

QEMU (not recommended yet)

Though it is possible to use QEMU hypervisor, it is still experimental and there are known performance issues on Windows systems. Therefore it is not recommended for the moment.

Also, please note that QEMU on Windows requires Hyper-V.

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 recommend using VirtualBox on Linux, but if you still wish to use it, you need to install 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

QEMU (default)

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

VirtualBox (legacy, mac Intel)

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