GenyMotion Virtual Device Download Links

Question

Downloading through the GenyMotion interface is very slow for me. Can I download these virtual girls from my source and then add them to GenyMotion? if so, how can I find the links?

Answer 1

This answer describes the steps for downloading any virtual device (including new and preliminary) from the official Genymotion repository.

Follow these steps:

• Open Genymotion and click the "Add" button.

• Select the device for which the actual source URL is required.

• Click Next, and then Next again (on the screen where the option to rename the device is displayed).

• Wait a while until Genymotion starts downloading the file (i.e. some download is shown).

• Cancel the boot process and close Genymotion.

• Go to this directory: C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Genymobile\Genymotion\ova , replace <user_name> with the username of your Windows account.

• You will see at least one .ova file in this directory. Sort them according to the attribute "Date created" or "Date modified" and copy the name of the last file with the extension, for example. genymotion_vbox86p_6.0_160825_141918.ova . Copy this name as you need in the next step.

• C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Genymobile this path: C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Genymobile and you should see the file "genymotion.log". Open the file and find the text for the previously copied file name. You should see this as part of the link.
  eg 08:11:28 [Genymotion] [debug] Downloading file http://dl.genymotion.com/dists/7.0.0/ova/genymotion_vbox86p_7.0_161206_183248.ova

• Now copy the URL and paste it into your browser or into any download manager.

• After the file has been downloaded, move it to the directory in which you copied the file name. those. C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Genymobile\Genymotion\ova
  Make sure that the downloaded file has the extension “.ova”, if it has another extension, for example, “.tar” (in the case of android 7.0), rename the extension to “.ova”.

• Now open "Genymotion", click "Add", and then select the same device that you selected earlier, and continue, rename it if you want, and click "Next". Now the device will be deployed without booting.