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bochs - Portable x86 Emulator.
bochs [bochs_options] [bochsrc_options]
Bochs is a portable Intel Architecture 32 (x86) emulator that
runs on most popular operating systems. Inside the emulator, it can
run many operating systems including GNU, GNU/Linux and Microsoft(R)
Windows(R).
When you run bochs without one of the following options,
it will search for a configuration file called .bochsrc in the current directory
and your home directory and display the start menu.
- -q
- With this option the
start menu will be skipped after loading the configuration file.
- -f configfile
- This option specifies the name of the configuration file.
- -qf configfile
- When
you run bochs with this option, it will skip the start menu and use the
specified configuration file.
- -n
- With this option bochs doesn't load a configuration
file. In that case the setup for the emulation must be done with bochsrc
options on the command line or in the start menu.
- -h, --help
- Print a summary
of the command line options for bochs and exit.
You can override the settings
from the configuration file with command line arguments, using the same
syntax as the bochsrc file. If you have any spaces in your command line
arguments, they should be enclosed in single quotes. For information on
Bochs command line and configuration file arguments, see the man page bochsrc(5)
.
Example: bochs -q 'boot:a' 'floppya: 1_44=a.img, status=inserted'
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
See the LGPL file located in /usr/share/common-licenses/ for details
on the license and the lack of warrantee.
The latest version
of this program can be found at: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html
bochsrc(5)
, bochs-dlx(1)
, bximage(1)
The Bochs IA-32 Emulator site on the World Wide Web:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net
Online Bochs Documentation
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook
The Bochs emulator was created by Kevin Lawton (kevin@mandrakesoft.com),
and is currently maintained by the members of the Bochs x86 Emulator
Project. You can see a current roster of members at:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getinvolved.html
Please report all bugs to the bug tracker on our web site. Just
go to http://bochs.sourceforge.net,
and click "Bug Reports" on the sidebar
under "Feedback".
Provide a detailed description of the bug, the version
of the program you are running, the operating system you are running the
program on and the operating system you are running in the emulator.
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