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:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 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