Genymotion emulator shows black screen

Question

I installed genymotion emulator in c drive default location and from eclipse i also installed that plugin . i can run a emulator form virtual box or eclipse genymotion icon but emulator show only black screen and i cant run android project . Anyone can help me please , why happen this ? I also followed the FAQ section from genymotion site .

Answer 1

For me, the issue was that I had disabled GPU dynamic switching. I have a program for Mac OS X called "gfxCardStatus", and I had it on the setting "Integrated Only" -- so it was only running on my integrated graphics card. Switching back to the "Dynamic Switching" option fixed it for me, which allowed Genymotion to use the discrete card as well.

Answer 2

I don't have experience with the GenyMotion emulator, but with emulators provided by Google they sometimes just show a black screen and no application. This is usually fixed by selecting the Virtual device's Emulator option which tells the emulator to use the Host GPU.

On the Goggle AVD setup you find this by creating a new device or editing an existing one, and looking for the "Emulator Options" prompt. Check the "Use Host GPU" checkbox.

Answer 3

For me, it was disabling IPv6 (setting blank the IPv6 fields in the global settings / Network / host only / vboxnet1) the only thing that worked.