How to rename genymotion device?

Question

My virtual device is called phone 720*1280, I want to rename it to client phone. However cant find a settings for that if I rename folder inside .Genymobile/genymotion/deployed - device is missing from list of availible devices changes in field inside phone 720*1280.xml (name, vm_device_name) does not see to make any effect.

Answer 1

I use GenyMotion pretty often, and I, too, was curious about this. I was able to successfully rename one of my GenyMotion VMs by doing the following:

1. Close GenyMotion completely (may not be necessary, but mine was fully closed when I tried this)
2. Open VirtualBox (the "Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager")
3. In the list of virtual machines, right click on the GenyMotion VM you want to rename
4. In the context menu that appears, click on "Settings..."
5. Make sure you are on the "Basic" tab of the "General" section
6. Modify the text inside of the "Name" textbox/text-field to whatever you want
7. Finally, just click the "OK" button at the bottom of the window.

When you open GenyMotion, you should now see the device listed with whatever name you entered inside of VirtualBox.

I personally tested this on Window 10 64bit, with VirtualBox v5.0.8 (r103449), and GenyMotion v2.5.4. After following the steps above, I was able to successfully rename an Android VM and use it in GenyMotion.

Note: This does also appear to rename the folder. Hopefully that will not be a problem for you.