[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#475202: virtualbox-ose: Can't start VMs headless

[Pascal Volk]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.6-dfsg-3
Severity: normal

When I try to start a virtual machine headless, as described in the manual¹,
section 7.4.1, I get the following error:

pvo at el-presidente ~ $ VBoxManage startvm "OpenBSD 4.2" -type vrdp
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.6_OSE
(C) 2005-2008 innotek GmbH
All rights reserved.

[!] FAILED calling virtualBox->OpenRemoteSession(session, uuid, sessionType, env, progress.asOutParam()) at line 4475!
[!] Primary RC  = 0x80070057
[!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
[!] Result Code = 0x80070057
[!] Text        = Invalid session type: 'vrdp'
[!] Component   = Machine, Interface: IMachine, {31f7169f-14da-4c55-8cb6-a3665186e35e}
[!] Callee      = IVirtualBox, {76b25f3c-15d4-4785-a9d3-adc6a462beec}

Regards,
Pascal

1 = http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.107       add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.20      Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.7-10      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.0-1   GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]     7.0.3~rc2-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.16.1-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                      0.8.10-0.1  library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt                    3:3.3.8b-5  Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian              1.2.13-2    Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.0-1     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.3-7   X11 client-side library
ii  libxalan110                  1.10-3.1    Provides XSLT support for applicat
ii  libxcursor1                  1:1.1.9-1   X cursor management library
ii  libxerces27                  2.7.0-5     validating XML parser library for 
ii  libxext6                     2:1.0.4-1   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                       1:1.0.5-3   X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  virtualbox-ose-mod 1.5.6-dfsg-3+2.6.24-4 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern

-- debconf information:
  virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: false