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<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="A Window, Tux, and the BSD Daemon" width="160" height="175" align="right">
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Welcome to the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project</b></font><BR>
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Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator
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written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the
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Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, Bochs can be compiled
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to emulate a 386, 486, Pentium/PentiumII/PentiumIII/Pentium4 or x86-64 CPU including optional MMX,
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SSEx and 3DNow! instructions.<BR>
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Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS,
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Windows® 95/98 and Windows® NT/2000/XP or Windows Vista. Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton
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and is currently maintained by this project.<BR>
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Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are
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still in development. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete x86 PC emulation,
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including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory. This allows you to run OS's and
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software within the emulator on your workstation, much like you have a machine inside of a
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machine. For instance, let's say your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run
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Win'95 applications. Bochs will allow you to run Win 95 and associated software on your Unix/X11
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workstation, displaying a window on your workstation, simulating a monitor on a PC.
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<BR><BR><BR>
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<td> <img src="images/bochs2_4.png" alt="Bochs 2.4"></td>
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs 2.4 released on May 3, 2009</b></font><BR>
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Bochs 2.4 was released on May 3. You can download it from the
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=680001">SourceForge project page</a>.<BR>
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See the <a href="http://bochs.cvs.sourceforge.net/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?view=markup&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=REL_2_4_FINAL">
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CHANGES</a> file for details on what has changed since release 2.3.7.<BR>
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</td></tr></table><hr>
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<BR><BR><BR>
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs IRC Chat Transcripts</b></font><BR>
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The Bochs community held an IRC open discussion chat on Sunday, February 1, 2004.
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We talked about current and future developments (<a href="irc-20040201.html">Transcript</a>). Here are some transcripts of earlier conversations:
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<a href="irc-20020407.html">October 13, 2002</a>,
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<a href="irc-20020407.html">April 7, 2002</a>,
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<a href="irc-20010619.html">June 19, 2001</a>,
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<a href="irc-20010530.html">May 30, 2001</a>.
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<BR><BR><BR>
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs at ISCA-35</b></font><BR>
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Bochs was presented at ISCA-35 in Beijing, China at
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"The 1st Workshop on Architectural and Microarchitectural Support for Binary Translation" by a paper
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<br><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="2"><b>
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"Virtualization without direct execution - designing a portable VM".</b></font>
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<br>Download <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/Virtualization_Without_Hardware_Final.pdf">paper</a> and <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/VirtNoJit.pdf">presentation</a> slides.
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Help Wanted</b></font><BR>
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<i>We currently need help with the following tasks:</i>
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<li><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Bugs+Waiting+to+be+Fixed&url=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/qmrkgroup_ideq12580ampatideq112580">
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Bug Reports</a>:
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Mouse, interrupt controller,
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timer, IDE controller, network card, keyboard, VGA... Most of our bug
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reports and feature requests are due to incomplete C++ models of the
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various PC devices. To improve this, we need PC Hardware Gurus who know
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where to find the specs for this stuff and improve the hardware models for
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Bochs. Working on models is a fun way to learn how things work, and unlike
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designing a real hard disk, you can test out your changes on a real operating
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system immediately!
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<li><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/diskimages.html">Disk Images</a>: Our collection of disk images is getting out of date. It would be great to have small or large images of a variety of free operating systems.
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<li>Documentation: Adding installation help and other useful information into the docs.
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</ul>
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To help with one of these tasks, please contact <a href="http://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=376477">Volker Ruppert</a>
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or <a href="http://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=487634">Stanislav Shwartsman</a>.
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<BR><BR>
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Older News</b></font><BR>
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<li><b>June 3, 2008:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=604138">Bochs 2.3.7</a> is now available.
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<li><b>December 24, 2007:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=563831">Bochs 2.3.6</a> is now available.
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<li><b>September 16, 2007:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=539829">Bochs 2.3.5</a> is now available.
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<li><b>August 27, 2006:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=442658">Bochs 2.3</a> is now available.
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<li><b>January 29, 2006:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=389181">Bochs 2.2.6</a> is now available.
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<li><b>December 30, 2005:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=381709">Bochs 2.2.5</a> is now available.
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<li><b>July 8, 2005:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=340639">Bochs 2.2.1</a> is now available.
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<li><b>May 28, 2005:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=330621">Bochs 2.2</a> is now available.
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<li><b>August 1, 2004:</b> Bochs is SF project of the month for August 2004 !
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<li><b>February 8, 2004:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=215733">Bochs 2.1.1</a> is now available.
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<li><b>January 13, 2004:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=209220">Bochs 2.1</a> is now available.
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