Gennymotion unable to load virtualbox engines

Question

When I start gennymotion this is the error message shown:

Unable to load VirtualBox engine. Make sure that it is properly installed before starting Genymotion. For more information, please refer to https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/faq/#vbox Genymotion log archive has been saved in: /home/arka/genymotion-log.zip Please contact Genymotion support for more help.

I have virtual box installed on my machine.

Please provide step by step instructions to solve this problem (I am a new Ubuntu user)

System details:

intel i5 processor, 4GB ram, OS: Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04

Solution

First make sure that your user is in the vboxuser group. To do this run the following command:

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER

then force the VirtualBox Module compilation by running following command:

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

If the above command fails, use:

sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup

then try to restart virtualBox from command line

/usr/bin/VirtualBox restart

Comments

[Arka]

After running the second command it said that dkms was not found: I tried removing and reinstalling dkms but got an error saying that package operation failed

[Maythux]

Did you use sudo with reinstalling?

[Arka]

I reinstalled it from ubuntu software centre, not from the terminal