Xamarin Android Player Error when attempting to find VirtualBox

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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?

Best Answer

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

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