Bochs
Bochs is a portable open source x86 and AMD64 architecture simulator mostly written in C++. It supports emulation of the processor(s) (including protected mode), memory, disks, display, ethernet, BIOS and common hardware peripherals of PCs. Many guest operating systems can be run using the emulator including DOS, several versions of Windows, BSDs and Linux. Bochs can run on many host operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and OS X on the Mac. Bochs is mostly used for operating system development (when an emulated operating system crashes, it does not crash the host operating system, so the emulated OS can be debugged) and to run other guest operating systems inside already running host operating systems. Some people use it to run old computer games inside their non-compatible computers.
See Also Comparison of Virtual Machines
External linksBochs Development Homepage
|
|
