[vbox-dev] why should virtualbox 5.1.4 enable uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) as default?

[Frank Mehnert]

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
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