Important
From Genymotion Desktop 3.6.0 onward, QEMU is the default hypervisor and should be preferred over VirtualBox: it provides better compatibility and performances on macOS. If you were using VirtualBox previously, we recommend switching to QEMU hypervisor.
Virtual machines, servers and Cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure, ...)
Genymotion Desktop has been designed to run in a physical environment, not in a virtual machine. For this reason, running Genymotion Desktop in a macOS VM, a mac server or a macOS Cloud instance is not supported.
For more details, please refer to the following articles:
- Can Genymotion Desktop run in a virtual machine?
- Can Genymotion Desktop run on a server?
- Can Genymotion Desktop run in a Cloud service (AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure, Alibaba, etc.)?
Mac M4 and macOS Sequoia 15.2
Due to a breaking change introduced in macOS 15.2 on Apple Mac M4 models, Genymotion Desktop may not work on this configuration at first.
To fix this problem, please refer to: I have upgraded macOS Sequoia to 15.2 and Genymotion Desktop has stopped working
Upgrading from Genymotion Desktop 3.3.3 or lower (mac M)
If you tried to install Genymotion Desktop 3.3.3 or lower on an Apple mac M series, you first need to purge it before upgrading.
For more details, please refer to this article: Apple Mac M series support
VirtualBox
Important
VirtualBox hypervisor is not available on mac M series.
From Genymotion Desktop 3.6.0 onward, QEMU is the default hypervisor and should be preferred over VirtualBox: it provides better compatibility and performances on macOS. If you were using VirtualBox previously, we recommend switching to QEMU hypervisor.
QEMU
If you are using QEMU hypervisor, or running on a mac M series, you need to make sure that macOS firewall does not block local ports connections. We recommend the following settings: