Genymotion refuses to start with "The Genymotion virtual device could not get an IP address."

Question

I am freaking out right now, I can't afford to lose another day of work trying to fix this stupid error (as well as can't get a real device at the moment). I am using an older laptop, so using the already slow Android emulator provided by Google isn't an option.

Genymotion was working fine for around a month, and now it refuses to start no matter what I do. I get "Unable to start the Genymotion virtual device. The Genymotion virtual device could not get an IP address. For an unknown reason, VB DHCP has not assigned an IP address to the virtual device."

What I have tried based on other answers I have read here on SO:

• Completely removing antivirus and disabling firewall
• Trying to start up Genymotion with network disabled
• Removing the host-only network
• Upgrading VB to latest / downgrading VB
• Manuallly configuring IP. This works once but then it breaks after a second time
• There are only three other programs installed and it is rather a fresh copy of Windows

Answer 1

I realize it's an old question, have you had any luck? Maybe check to be sure your DHCP Client service is running. This happened to me, and the service was disabled so I enabled, set startup type to "automatic" and did not get the error again. Good luck.