VirtualBox OSE 2.1.4 crashes upon start

[lucia_rotger]

I have compiled VBox 2.1.4 OSE and imported a VM I have been running normally in another installation of VirtualBox. With everything (networking/kernel module/bridges) set up on the new host, I type

$ VBoxHeadless --startvm aircomp05

VirtualBox crashes with this: http://tinypaste.com/57191

The first line says 'Invalid machine name' but VirtualBox seems to know about it:

$ VBoxManage list vms

outputs this, AFAIK it should be ready to run: http://tinypaste.com/c30a6

I don't know if I'm missing something fundamental here, I've been running the binary VirtualBox distribution installed from a .deb file on a regular Ubuntu host without problems for several months and the difference here is a) OS is Debian 5 (Lenny), b) no graphical shell at all, c) The host kernel (stock 2.6.28.7 from kernel.org) is heavily stripped down. I want a server compiled from source for maintainability and repeatability but although the compilation of VirtualBox went ok, it crashes with the aforementioned output.

I can't make sense of the stack trace but I'll be glad to try things you may come up with as this is (still) a test server. I haven't found any known issues between OSE 2.1.4 and this kernel and google comes up very little regarding this behavior, which is a kernel issue; it's linked to vboxdrv but I'm at a loss from here. Can anyone tell me what's happening?

The host is a Intel Core2 Quad with 4 GB RAM. Kernel config: http://tinypaste.com/ad4b2

Hope someone can help, thanks in advance!

[lucia_rotger]

Related: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12965

I'd suggest the executables check for loaded modules before horribly crashing.

[rsilvergun]

I know I had to run vboxsvc.exe for the build I had (not mine, it was posted by someone else) before it would run... With the PEUL edition I didn't have to run it though, it took care of that for me.