Genymotion Black Screen: Failed To Connect To Vm (tcpstream) For Main Host Connection, Ip:port=192.168.56.101:25000

Running genymotion w/virtualbox on ubuntu 17.04 Tried both the 'Custom Tablet 7.1.0' and 'Custom Phone 7.1.0' and neither one seems to boot: I just see a black screen perpetually.

Solution 1:

Posting this Answer here, as I just lost a day and a half of my life to this, which I will never get back! Just to confirm, there are a lot of posts around, with various fixes, none of which worked for me.

I had the same issue as above, genymotion launching as a black screen, launching from Terminal shows error

Failed to connect to VM (TcpStream) for main host connection, 
   IP:Port=192.168.56.101:25000!!!

For me, the issue was that virtualbox had not created the route for vboxnet0.

To confirm, Install net-tools, and check your routes

$ sudo apt install net-tools
$ route -n

Your looking for an ip in the same range as your error, in this case: 192.168.56.0. If it's not there you'll need to add it.

sudo ip route add192.168.56.0/24 dev vboxnet0

Go back to genymotion, clear your cache -> settings -> misc -> clear cache, and then reload your device.

Hope it works for you!

Solution 2:

It might be the IP configuration of Virtual Box. Check to make sure the IP listed in Host-only Network inside Preferences is the same as your local IP.