Xamarin Android Player Error when attempting to find VirtualBox

Question

I have a clean install of Windows 10. After installing Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin Bussiness edition I installed Xamarin Android Player x64 and now I receive the following error:

Error when attempting to find VirtualBox please check it's installed and try again.
Xamarin Android Player will now exit.

A solution is referenced in Xamarin fourms stating

Fixed it by adding "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox" to my %PATH%

I am able to open VirtualBox version 4.3.28 r 100309 without issue.

How do I implment this solution or is there a newer solution?

Answer 1

I am running Windows 10 Professional and did a clean installation. Had the same problem. I opened the environment variables and the "VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH" was set to:

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\

I changed it to

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox

and it worked for me.. (notice the last backslash)

Thanks .. Ragnar Kofi Billy Force on facebook

Answer 2

Try installing the Latest version of Virtual Box, Since v5.0 has fixes for Windows 10 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.4/VirtualBox-5.0.4-102546-Win.exe

Changelog: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs from the VM process on Windows 10 (bug #14351).
Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on Windows 10 (bug #14040)
Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10 (bug #14432).
Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver with Windows 10 (bug #14190).
VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients (bug #14216).
Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later (bug #14502).
Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10 (bug #14437).
VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs.

I have a same problem too and installing the latest version has fix it