Some notes so I remember how to fix this problem if it happens again and I don’t waste a bunch of time figuring it out right before a customer production release. Not a great start to my day.
This issue happened to me many moons ago when I first upgraded to VirtualBox 6 and Ubuntu 18. This is the second time so I better write down what I did so I hopefully remember if it happens a third time.
[Read More]I do all my development inside virtual machines. This allows me to keep separate development environment for different projects and clients. I wanted to keep this tradition for developing mobile applications but that turned out to be a bit of challenge.
The Xamarin Android Player and the Genymotion emulators both use VirtualBox to emulate the Android phone or tablet. This works great if you don’t develop in a virtual machine. If you develop inside a virtual machine you run into a major problem: you can’t run a virtual machine inside a virtual machine.
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