Genymotion failed to start due to incorrect IP settings: “The Genymotion Virtual device could not obtain an IP address”

If you start running Genymotion, you might encounter the “The Genymotion Virtual device could not obtain an IP address” error, as shown below:

To solve this:

Install Genymotion In Ubuntu

Genymotion is a great virtual machine, especially for emulating Android VMs.

In my earlier post, I have shown how to emulate Nexus 10 using Genymotion.

Recently, I need to do the same work in Ubunut, and found this post very useful to guide me in installation of Genymotion in Ubuntu. Below is from the post by Gregory Schier:

VirutalBox: VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED cannot mount guest additions iso

After installing VirtualBox in windows, and if you use Menu > Devices > Install Guest Additions, most probably you might encounter the below errors:

“Unable to mount the CD/DVD image
Could not mount the media/drive VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED)”

A simple solution is to open a terminal in Ubuntu, and then type below command:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso