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Guide for Genymotion Desktop End Users

This chapter explains how users can retrieve a token from the license server in order to use Genymotion with your license server.

Installation and setup

Make sure that your system meets Genymotion Desktop requirements before proceeding.

  1. Download Genymotion Desktop installer for your system from here
  2. Follow the steps from Genymotion Desktop installation guide to install Genymotion Desktop depending on your system.
  3. Launch Genymotion Desktop. If you already have a Genymotion account, log in with your credentials. Otherwise, you will need to create one. To do so, click CREATE ACCOUNT at the log in screen:

    First login

    Once your account is activated, log in with your credentials.

  4. In the Usage section, select I have a license and click NEXT:

    Usage

  5. In the License section, check My company uses an enterprise license server:

    License server

  6. Enter the server IP address or URL and click on Connect. The location as well as the expiration date and time of your license will be displayed.

  7. Read the End User License Agreement carefully and check I have read and accept the end user license agreement. Click NEXT:

    EULA

This will allocate a license token to your machine and open Genymotion Desktop main window:

Dashboard

To verify and access license options, go to Genymotion > Settings > Account:

Settings

If you already have an account and you are already logged in, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open Genymotion Settings (Genymotion → Settings)
  2. In the Account tab, check My company uses an entreprise server:

    Register

  3. Enter the server IP address or URL and click on Connect. The location as well as the expiration date and time of your license will be displayed:

License server options

From this page, you can perform the following actions:

EDIT

Change the license server IP/URL.

RENEW

Renew an offline license.

RELEASE

Release an offline license to make it available for other users. This also closes Genymotion.

REQUEST

Request a temporary offline license.

Offline Tokens

To use Genymotion outside your company's network for a given period of time, you can request an offline token.

The offline tokens must be enabled by the license server admin first.

To request an offline token:

  1. Go to GenymotionSettings in Genymotio Desktop and click on the Account tab: license options
  2. Select the duration of their offline token in the drop-down list
  3. Click REQUEST

Then, they can:

  • free the offline token to make it available for other users by clicking RELEASE
  • request the offline token renewal by clicking RENEW

For more details about Genymotion Desktop features and usage, please refer to Genymotion Desktop on-line user guide .

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