IRC Survey 5/30/2001

What do you use Bochs for?

OS Developer: to test software that you are writing
Educator/Student: to see how the computer works
Win Apps: To run Windows applications under some other OS
Run other x86 OSes

What are the most important areas for future bug fixes?

bug1: mouse support (takes too much CPU, some modes not implemented)
bug2: keyboard (missing keys, international support)
bug3: cdrom model (support on win95,98 and other OSes)
bug4: miscellaneous CPU model problems (unimplemented instructions)
bug5: documentation is lacking
bug6: my favorite OS or application _____ doesn't boot yet!

What are the most important feature requests?

feature1: disk image tools
feature2: timing problems (bochs takes up 100% of CPU, keyboard autorepeats too much)
feature3: cdrom (read from cdrom disk image, boot from CD)
feature4: hard disk (allow more than 2, read from raw partitions, etc.)
feature5: floppy disk (detect different sizes)
feature6: video (display speed ?, missing video modes)
feature7: networking (get bochs talking to the world)
feature8: emulation speed (guest-to-host communication, profiling to find slow code)
feature8: building for win32 sucks because of missing makefile problem
feature10: GUI for configuration and runtime control