macOS Installation Guide

Supported versions

Genymotion Desktop has been fully tested on macOS Sequoia (15) and Sonoma (14). Other versions are not or no longer supported.

Rosetta must be enabled on mac M series. Learn more

Hypervisor

QEMU (default, recommended)VirtualBox (not recommended)

Genymotion Desktop works as-is with an embedded QEMU hypervisor based on macOS Hypervisor, there is no need to install any extra software.

Using VirtualBox instead of QEMU is not recommended on macOS. Also, it is only available on old mac with Intel x86_64 CPU

VirtualBox is not included in our DMG package and needs to be installed prior to Genymotion Desktop:

1. Download VirtualBox DMG package for macOS (Intel only). Learn more
2. Install VirtualBox.

3. Go to macOS System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General, and click the Allow button:

   

If you get an error when launching Genymotion Desktop, reboot your Mac.

Genymotion Desktop Installation

1. Open genymotion-X.Y.Z.dmg package
2. Drag and drop Genymotion and Genymotion Shell to the Applications directory