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Getting started with Bochs: NewsForge

Mon, 12/13/2004 - 09:02 — charlie.collins

Bochs is an open source IA-32 (x86) emulator. It is basically an open source and less feature rich version of Vmware (for X86 only). I havent tried it but apparently it does pretty well for most of the basic tasks you might ask an emulator to perform. For more see the linked NewsForge article and the Bochs site itself.   Getting started with Bochs

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Mon, 12/13/2004 - 23:16 — StuP (not verified)

RE: Getting started with Bochs: NewsForge

I have a couple of win98 images that I use for a couple of *real* legacy apps that I can't get to work well with wine... but Bochs is dog slow, so I've got to *really* want to run it.

Bochs looks like it has been pretty dead for a few years, but hopefully it will pick up again... and that will be a great thing, I must say.

Tue, 12/14/2004 - 13:12 — atrox (not verified)

RE: Getting started with Bochs: NewsForge

Yes I have heard its mega resource intensive so needs a ton to run it, but at least its there. Did not know it was dead but yes hopefully it will pick up.

Tue, 12/14/2004 - 18:49 — StuP (not verified)

RE: Getting started with Bochs: NewsForge

Last time I looked there were no CVS commits for yonks. Pity.

Looking at the NewsForge comments, I foudn two useful things: a way to get Win98 to actually issue HLT instructions (so it's not as resource intensive as a guest OS), and the QEMU project that claims to be faster, better, stronger, higher, whatever.

I might apt-get qemu at some stage soon and see what I find.

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