Can I open a Genymotion device from a terminal command?

Question

When I begin my Android development I always go through the same process of opening Genymotion, then selecting a virtual device with the mouse then clicking start.

I would like to script this so I can just open the virtual device from the termainal. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

This question has been asked before, and here is it's accepted Answer.

For others looking for non-headless command line startup:

/Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/player --vm-name "xxxx" Get a list of vms:

$ VBoxManage list vms "Galaxy Nexus - 4.2.2 - API 17 - 720x1280" {56d8e3aa-ecf8-483e-a450-86c8cdcedd35}

Where xxxx can be either the name or the id:

/Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/player --vm-name 56d8e3aa-ecf8-483e-a450-86c8cdcedd35 /Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/player --vm-name "Galaxy Nexus - 4.2.2 - API 17 - 720x1280"

You can kill it with a normal process kill:

ps | grep "Genymotion\.app/Contents/MacOS/player" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill

UPDATE

Since Genymotion 2.5.0 you can manage all your Genymotion devices thanks to a command line tool. With this tool you can create, start, stop, delete, push files, flash the device, ... Here is a simple example to create a device and start it:

gmtool admin create "Google Nexus 5 - 4.4.4 - API 19 - 1080x1920" myNexus
gmtool admin start myNexus

This feature is available for paid licenses.

Reference Link:
https://www.genymotion.com/#!/support?chapter=start-virtual-devices-command-prompt#faq