Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS or Microsoft Windows. Bochs was originally written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project. Bochs can be compiled and used in …

Bochs IA-32 Emulator provides a virtual PC that can run operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and BSD.

Introduction to Bochs 1.1. What is Bochs? 1.2. Who uses Bochs? 1.3. Is Bochs right for me? 1.4. Will it work for me? 1.5. Bochs License 1.6. Third Party Software Licensing and Temporary Files 1.7. Features 1.8. Supported Platforms 1.9. FAQ 2. Release Notes 3. Installation 3.1. Downloading Bochs 3.2. Tracking the source code with GIT 3.2.1 ...

Bochs is a program that simulates a complete Intel x86 computer. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Bochs can be compiled to emulate many different x86 CPUs, from early 386 to the most recent (sometimes even pre-market) x86-64 Intel and AMD processors.

Binary packages will be quicker to install, and most include a small demo of a guest operating system called DLX Linux to get you started. However, some features can only be enabled if you compile Bochs yourself, for example the Bochs debugger.

Bochs uses a configuration file called bochsrc to know where to look for disk images, how the Bochs emulation layer should work, etc. When you first start up Bochs, it looks around for its configuration file (see Section 5.2 ), and parses it.

Bochs IA-32 Emulator provides a virtual PC that can run operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and BSD.

Nov 14, 2000: Bochs.com moves to new ISP, FastXS.net. Mar 22, 2000: MandrakeSoft buys Bochs for Linux and commits it to Open Source. Bochs now has the LGPL license. Jan 4, 2000: New release: Integrated FPU emulator into main bochs source; FPU emulation now works on big-endian machines (tested on SPARC).

Bochs can handle independent disk image format for each disk present on the ata interfaces. The disk image type is selected in the configuration file by the "mode" option of the ataX-xxx directives. Example:

Note: This section describes how to enable and use the Bochs command line debugger. For its builtin graphical front-end please see the debugger gui section how to enable it. To use the debugger, you must configure Bochs with the --enable-debugger flag.