Unable to start vrdp session on headless gentoo server

[trmentry]

I'm running a Gentoo headless server with kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5. I emerged in 1.4.0 of the virtualbox-bin so I could get the rdp functionality. This also merged in the virtualbox-modules package.

Once that was all done, I added the 'nmi_watchdog=0' to my grub.conf and rebooted. Once that was done, 'vboxdrv' module loaded without issue.

I followed the instructions on page 73 of the manual to create my machine. But when I try and start it for the first time, I get the following:

user@server ~$ vboxvrdp -startvm "Windows XP Professional"
VirtualBox VRDP Headless Interface
(C) 2005-2007 innotek GmbH
All rights reserved

Error: failed to start machine. Error message: Unable to load R3 module /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxDD.
VBox status code: -102 (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)

However if I do the following command it appears to work:

user@server ~ $ vboxmanage startvm "Windows XP Professional" -type vrdp
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.4.0
(C) 2005-2007 innotek GmbH
All rights reserved.

Waiting for the remote session to open...
Remote session has been successfully opened. 

But doing a 'vboxmanage list vms' right after still shows the machine powered off. I tried to use Windows RDP client to connect (to I assume the IP of the server) and didn't get anything to connect to it.

I posted this to the forums but no replies so thought I would see if you can help out.

Many thanks Chris

My machine properties:

user@server ~ $ vboxmanage list vms
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.4.0
(C) 2005-2007 innotek GmbH
All rights reserved.

Name:            Windows XP Professional
Guest OS:        Windows XP
UUID:            687b767a-44df-4e8b-f499-ed1a0e12c864
Config file:     /home/user/.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.xml
Memory size:     384MB
VRAM size:       8MB
Boot menu mode:  message and menu
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          off
Time offset:     0 ms
Hardw. virt.ext: off
State:           powered off (since 2007-07-07T08:58:38.000000000)
Floppy:          empty
Primary master:  /home/user/.VirtualBox/VDI/WindowsXP-Pro.vdi (UUID: 53bd44dd-0b3e-469a-45a7-6d8b8d2259d2)
DVD:             /vmware/ISO/WindowsXPPro.iso (UUID: 6e001177-efdc-4d47-2b96-6e1aa29befaa)
NIC 1:           MAC: 080027C77CFA, Attachment: NAT, Trace: off (file: <NULL>)
NIC 2:           disabled
NIC 3:           disabled
NIC 4:           disabled
Audio:           disabled (Driver: Unknown)
Clipboard Mode:  Disabled
VRDP:            enabled (Port 0, Authentication type: null)
USB:             disabled

USB Device Filters:

<none>

Shared folders:

<none>

[benjamin9999]

Replying to trmentry:

I'm running a Gentoo headless server with kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5. I emerged in 1.4.0 of the virtualbox-bin so I could get the rdp functionality. This also merged in the virtualbox-modules package.

same problem today myself, also happens to be on gentoo, and also happens to be headless+RDP i try to run.

ldd on the VBoxDD.so shows that it wants libasound.

emerge alsa-lib and you should be set.

next problem i have is that iSCSI disk will cause floating point exception at this point.

[Frank Mehnert]

The iSCSI floating point exception is most probably due to a bad configuration of the iSCSI target. We fixed this in 1.5.6. Closing this bug as the original problem seems to be solved.