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You can view and access your Genymotion SaaS Cloud instances from Genymotion launcher.

In the Devices section, navigate to the CLOUD tab:

Cloud Instances Dashboard Tab

Click GET STARTED to connect Genymotion SaaS to Genymotion Desktop.

If you don't already have a Genymotion SaaS account yet, you can sign up at this point:

Genymotion SaaS account sign up

If you already have a Genymotion SaaS account, you can click LOG IN in the upper-right corner on the page, and log in with your credentials or SSO:

Genymotion SaaS account log in page

Once logged, you should see all your Genymotion SaaS recipes in Genymotion Desktop Cloud devices dashboard:

Genymotion SaaS virtual devices dashboard

Click REFRESH to refresh the list of available recipes.

Create a New Cloud Recipe

To create a recipe, can click CREATE. This will redirect you to your Genymotion SaaS dashboard:

Genymotion SaaS virtual devices dashboard

Then, follow the instructions from Genymotion SaaS user guide to create a new recipe. When done, your newly created recipe(s) will then appear in the Cloud devices dashboard in Genymotion Desktop:

Genymotion Cloud devices dashboard with running instance

If you do not wish to create a recipe yet, you can also directly start an instance from the Genymotion SaaS dashboard; it will then appear Online in the Cloud devices dashboard. Note that you will have to save the instance as a recipe if you wish to reuse it later.

Start an instance from a Cloud Recipe

Simply click , or > "Start instance", next to the recipe you wish to use to start a new Cloud instance with it. When ready, the instance will appear "Online" in the dashboard:

Cloud instance started

Access a Cloud Instance through Genymotion Desktop

Once your instance has started, or if you already have running instances, click to open the cloud instance display in Genymotion Desktop:

Access instance display

You can then operate your cloud instance like a local virtual device:

Instance display in Genymotion player

Warning

The following widgets/features are not implemented yet:

Other Actions

Click to open the actions menu:

Cloud instance options

Then, select an action:

  • Show instance: open the instance display in Genymotion, similar to the icon.
  • Stop instance: stop the selected instance if it is running.
  • Start another instance: start another instance from the same recipe as the running instance.

    This action, will not stop the running instance!

  • Copy instance UUID: copy the instance UUID to clipboard.

  • Copy recipe UUID: copy the recipe UUID to clipboard.

Instance and recipe UUID are generally used to automate operations with gmsaas CLI tool.