On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:23:17 CEST getonga wrote: > I use virtualbox as the vagrant provider, it works very well. > Recently I update the virtualbox to version 5.1.4, the message appears: > $ dmesg | grep -i warn > [ 92.028562] capability: warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities > (legacy support in use) > > I have three linux machines, all has these msg. All of them have the secure > virtual mode enable. Why should virtualbox use 32-bit as default, not the > 64-bit? Some old versions not use this as default, but I am not sure which > version starts to use this as default. > > It also works, but I'd like to know why this enables as default?
I don't think that using the legacy 32-bit capabilities causes any issue. It's just a message in the host kernel log file and it's there for ages. Capability support is required to create a raw net socket for ICMP with NAT, see SUPR3HardenedMain.cpp. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
