First I tried to use the run script for starting it as a daemon. After a few modification cuz of missing paths a pidfile was created but manialive wasn't running and I had no logs.
So I tried the other way to start it as a non daemon but I get the following error:
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/gameserver/qv_free/manialive/bootstrapper.php on line 20
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gameserver/qv_free/manialive/bootstrapper.php on line 20