


For instance, let's say your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run Win'95 applications. This allows you to run OS's and software within the emulator on your workstation, much like you have a machine inside of a machine. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete x86 PC emulation, including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory. Bochs was originally written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project.īochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are still in development. Bochs can be compiled to emulate many different x86 CPUs, from early 386 to the most recent x86-64 Intel and AMD processors which may even not reached the market yet.īochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS or Microsoft Windows. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS.
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Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms.
