Latest release: Bochs 2.3.5

About a year after the last stable one we have a new intermediate (bugfix+) release. Here is the list of changes since version 2.3:

• Critical problems fixed for x86-64 support in CPU and Bochs internal debugger
• ACPI support
• The release compiled with x86-64 and ACPI
• Hard disk emulation supports ATA-6 (LBA48 addressing, UDMA modes)
• Added emulation of Intel SSE4.1 instruction set
• Lots of bugfixes

The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :

• x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
• devices: ACPI, NE2000, PCI, SB16 and USB
• video: Bochs VBE and Cirrus SVGA
• Linux display libraries: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, x
• Windows display libraries: nogui, rfb, win32

Details on what has changed since version 2.3


Previous release: Bochs 2.3

About seven months after the last intermediate one we have a new stable release. Here is the list of changes since version 2.2.6:

• limited save/restore support added (config + log options, hardware state)
• configuration parameter handling rewritten to a parameter tree
• lots of cpu and internal debugger fixes
• hard disk geometry autodetection now supported by most of the image types
• hard disk emulation now supports ATA-3 (multiple sector transfers)
• VBE memory size increased to 8MB and several VGA/VBE fixes
• updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.6a

Details on what has changed since version 2.2.6


Bochs Binary and Source Releases

The latest release of Bochs is available in these file formats :

• Win32 binary NSIS installer package (EXE)
• SMP binary for win32 (ZIP) - Bochs installation is required
• Linux binary RPM
• Platform independant source package (TAR.GZ)
• Win32 specific source package prepared for MSVC (ZIP)
• Linux source RPM

You can download any release since March 2001 on the Releases Page.


Download CVS Snapshot

CVS Snapshot: Bochs, like many other open source projects, uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) to keep track of source code. Unlike the current release, the CVS version of the sources contains everything the developers have written to this date, and it can change daily (or even hourly). As a result, the CVS version of Bochs will have more features and bug fixes than the release, but also it may be somewhat less stable. You can decide if you prefer to go exploring and try out our newest code, or stick with the better-tested release. Since the CVS sources are always in motion, we take a snapshot each night at some late hour after most developers should be in bed.

The CVS snapshots are provided as a convenience only. Of course, you could also get the same information using CVS itself. Some of the benefits of using CVS directly are: you can get any release or version, view the log messages that say what files were changed, and make patches very easily with "cvs diff -u". Last Modified on .