BSD Ports

emulators/bochs 2.8,2 DragonFly

IA-32 (x86) PC emulator that runs DOS, Win 95, and more

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
LGPL21
Categories
emulators
Package size
972.2 KiB, 3436.7 KiB installed

Description

Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro or AMD64 CPU, including optional MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow instructions.

Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000/XP.

Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by the Bochs project.

Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are still in development. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete x86 PC emulation, including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory. 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. For instance, let's say your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run Win'95 applications. Bochs will allow you to run Win 95 and associated software on your Unix/X11 workstation, displaying a window on your workstation, simulating a monitor on a PC.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlyemulators/bochs2.8,2
FreeBSDemulators/bochs3.1,2
OpenBSDemulators/bochs3.1p1
NetBSDemulators/bochs2.7nb14
MidnightBSDemulators/bochs2.8,2
HardenedBSDemulators/bochs3.1,2
GhostBSDemulators/bochs3.1,2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install bochs

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/emulators/bochs && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3
Required by 1

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

Bochs requires a .bochsrc file to be present in either your current
directory or your home directory before starting. A sample .bochsrc
file can be found in /usr/local/share/doc/bochs/bochsrc-sample.txt