Exactly, it's not supported. What you're observing is that today it still works, but we're not making any promises that it'll stay this way. If with the next 6.0 change the 32-bit host builds are failing it's just how it is. We would ignore any requests to fix it.
5.2 still works (and we'll keep it working) on 32-bit hosts, until its end of support in July 2020. VirtualBox was available for 32-bit host OSes much longer than any other popular virtualizer out there. However, everything has to end eventually, and we decided that with the new major version the time has come. Otherwise we'd feel obliged to support it until the end of support of 6.x, which is in 4.5 years from now. It feels wrong to use modern 64-bit systems to run a 32-bit OS (except in a VM), and the last widespread true 32-bit CPUs are getting rather old now. The last mainstream 32-bit CPUs launched by Intel were in Q1/06, and the very last 32-bit only Atom CPU was launched Q2/13. I doubt that Atom CPUs are used much with VirtualBox (usually these are used in seriously cheap stuff which doesn't have enough memory), so we're mainly talking about systems made over a decade ago. Klaus On 15.05.2019 18:17, Sérgio Basto wrote: > From [1] > but we build on Fedora RPMFusion vbox server (the host part) on i686, > is not supported ? but is working ? ... > > Can someone explain better this sentence [1] ? > > Thanks, > > [1] > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads > "Please also use version 5.2 if you still need support for 32-bit > hosts, as this has been discontinued in 6.0." _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
