Virtuabox not working with Genymotion? Can't open Virtualbox at all

Question

I have the latest versions of Genymotion (2.8.0) and Virtualbox (5.0.4). If I try to run any emulator through Genymotion, I get an error message:

"Unable to start the virtual device.

VirtualBox cannot start the virtual device.

To find out the cause of the problem, start the virtual device from VirtualBox."

If I try to start Virtualbox it doesn't run at all. Absolutely nothing shows up, not even in task manager. I read on VirtualBox forum it might have something to do with Windows 10, but no one seems to have a exact fix.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Answer 1

I ran into this problem after updating to Win10 RS, was solved by updating VirtualBox to the latest version. (I have Genymotion 2.8.0 and VirtualBox 5.1.4)