Anyone used Bochs?

Post by **Dare2** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:27 am

Has anyone used Bochs http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ - specifically under windows to run linux?

( After some recent efforts & results to dual boot, emulate and etc I am a bit nervous of just trying

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Kanati2 · Post by **Kanati2** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:59 pm

not to run linux... but I've used it to run dos for old games... But it don't work nearly as well as DoxBox does for that. Dosbox not only emulates a machine but you can speed up and slow down the cpu. I think it emulates a 386 to start with but you can make it go as fast as your cpu can handle.

Kanati

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:19 pm

On a random but related topic, anyone got any joy emulating a dos PC on a machine that you are connected to via Windows RDP? I got DosBox working but the mouse pointer was nuts (probably due to the latency of RDP + the emulation). Shame, since running the program we needed to use was OK under DosBox on my local PC.

Anyway, tips would be gratefully recieved ;)

Edit: I don't want to hijack the thread, so anyone wanting to reply on the RDP issue feel free to reply by PM :)

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:41 pm

tried it, but bochs is too slow for any practical use except for os development

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:02 pm

I experimented with all of the open source emulators out there and found coLinux to be the best one for running Linux on Windows. YMMV. I have also created a disk image/install of coLinux that contains a Gentoo workstation fully configured for PureBasic, including the demo version of PureBasic. The downside is getting the network to function properly - which has been hit or miss with most people. I have had good success on all of the PCs I have installed it on but there are issues other people have reported. Here is a thread I started in the announce section which displays some screen shots.

viewtopic.php?t=12200

It was rather fun putting the image together. You might want to start out from scratch yourself. I made the Gentoo disk a little less secure than you would normally want to - just to make it a little easier.[/i]

Post by **Dare2** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:36 pm

tinman wrote:I don't want to hijack the thread, so anyone wanting to reply on the RDP issue feel free to reply by PM

If you get responses by PM you have to repost them here so the rest of us can get the good oil. So perhaps just hijack away ..

Hi Kanati2

Thanks for the feedback. And thanks for the dosbox info - I have to look it up. I was using something that hogged cycles to slow down games.

Heya blueznl.

Don't know how fast/slow it is, my first attempt with Bosch failed (bios problem). So I need to try again.

Hi Beech.

Good stuff!

I tried colinux under win2k and after a time managed to share connections. But then it couldn't find the needed files. What should the actual directory structure look like - more specifically, what is copied from the unpack/install folders to created folders, and where. I think I screwed up on that.

(Sheesh, I wish I was intelligent!)