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class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Original author(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Kevin Lawton<sup id="cite_ref-kevin_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kevin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-zbqvx_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zbqvx-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Community based; owned by <a href="/wiki/Mandriva" title="Mandriva">Mandriva</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">1994<span class="noprint">; 31 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1994</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-ijBLB_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ijBLB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">3.0<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-b22d025ec5ce3a2ec149d20ec730236ccc60e74e-v18_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-b22d025ec5ce3a2ec149d20ec730236ccc60e74e-v18-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q778082?uselang=en#P348" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" 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title="Windows">Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_CE" title="Windows CE">Windows CE</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Windows_Embedded_Compact#Relationship_to_Windows_Mobile,_Pocket_PC,_and_SmartPhone" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Embedded Compact">its derivatives</a>, <a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a>, <a href="/wiki/BeOS" title="BeOS">BeOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/MorphOS" title="MorphOS">MorphOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/AmigaOS" title="AmigaOS">AmigaOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Android_OS" class="mw-redirect" title="Android OS">Android OS</a>, <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_2" title="PlayStation 2">PlayStation 2</a><sup id="cite_ref-SAY9K_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAY9K-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/IA-32" title="IA-32">IA-32</a>, <a href="/wiki/X64" class="mw-redirect" title="X64">x64</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="English (language)">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Emulator" title="Emulator">Emulator</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License" title="GNU Lesser General Public License">GNU Lesser General Public License</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bochs.sourceforge.io/">bochs<wbr />.sourceforge<wbr />.io</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bochs</b> (pronounced "box") is a portable <a href="/wiki/IA-32" title="IA-32">IA-32</a> and <a href="/wiki/X86-64" title="X86-64">x86-64</a> <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" title="IBM PC compatible">IBM PC compatible</a> <a href="/wiki/Emulator" title="Emulator">emulator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Debugger" title="Debugger">debugger</a> mostly written in <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a> and distributed as <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License" title="GNU Lesser General Public License">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>. It supports emulation of the processor(s) (including <a href="/wiki/Protected_mode" title="Protected mode">protected mode</a>), memory, disks, display, <a href="/wiki/Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a>, <a href="/wiki/BIOS" title="BIOS">BIOS</a> and common hardware peripherals of <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" title="IBM PC compatible">PCs</a>. </p><p>Many guest <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a> can be run using the emulator including <a href="/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a>, several versions of <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xenix" title="Xenix">Xenix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/BSD" class="mw-redirect" title="BSD">BSDs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhapsody_OS" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhapsody OS">Rhapsody OS</a> (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/precursor" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:precursor">precursor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Public_Beta" title="Mac OS X Public Beta">Mac OS X Public Beta</a>). Bochs runs on many host operating systems, including <a href="/wiki/Android_OS" class="mw-redirect" title="Android OS">Android OS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_2" title="PlayStation 2">PlayStation 2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows">Windows</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Windows_CE" title="Windows CE">Windows CE</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Windows_Embedded_Compact#Relationship_to_Windows_Mobile,_Pocket_PC,_and_SmartPhone" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Embedded Compact">its derivatives</a>. </p><p>Bochs is mostly used for operating system development (when an emulated operating system <a href="/wiki/Crash_(computing)" title="Crash (computing)">crashes</a>, it does not crash the host operating system, so the emulated OS can be <a href="/wiki/Debugging" title="Debugging">debugged</a>) and to run other guest operating systems inside already running host operating systems. It can also be used to run older software — such as PC games — which will not run on non-compatible, or too fast computers. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bochs&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bochs started as a program with a commercial license, at the price of <a href="/wiki/US$" class="mw-redirect" title="US$">US$</a>25, for use as-is. If a user needed to link it to other software, that user would have to negotiate a special license. That changed on 22 March 2000, when Mandrakesoft (later <a href="/wiki/Mandriva" title="Mandriva">Mandriva</a>) bought Bochs from lead developer Kevin Lawton and released it for <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License" title="GNU Lesser General Public License">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kevin_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kevin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Support for hosting on <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a> ended with version 2.6.10. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use">Use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bochs&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bochs emulates the hardware needed by PC operating systems, including hard drives, CD drives, and floppy drives. It doesn't utilize any host CPU <a href="/wiki/Hardware-assisted_virtualization" class="mw-redirect" title="Hardware-assisted virtualization">virtualization</a> features, therefore is slower than most virtualization (as opposed to emulation) software. It provides additional security by completely isolating the guest OS from the hardware. Bochs also has extensive debugging features. It is widely used for OS development, as it removes the need for constant system restarts (to test code). </p><p>BFE, described as a "Graphical Debugger Interface for the Bochs PC Emulator", is a graphical interface for the debugger within the Bochs PC emulator that makes it possible to debug software step-by-step at the instruction and register level, much like Borland's <a href="/wiki/Borland_Turbo_Debugger" title="Borland Turbo Debugger">Turbo Debugger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-imA3B_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-imA3B-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Emulated_hardware">Emulated hardware</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bochs&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Emulated hardware"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Class</th> <th>Device </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Video_card" class="mw-redirect" title="Video card">Video card</a></td> <td>Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430 <a href="/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture" title="Industry Standard Architecture">ISA</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Cirrus Logic <a href="/wiki/Cirrus_Logic#Graphics_chipsets" title="Cirrus Logic">CL-GD5446</a> <a href="/wiki/Conventional_PCI" class="mw-redirect" title="Conventional PCI">PCI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/3dfx_Interactive" class="mw-redirect" title="3dfx Interactive">3dfx Interactive</a> Voodoo Banshee / Voodoo3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sound_card" title="Sound card">Sound card</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sound_Blaster_16" title="Sound Blaster 16">Sound Blaster 16</a> (ISA, no <a href="/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play" title="Legacy Plug and Play">Plug & Play</a>), <a href="/wiki/ES1370" class="mw-redirect" title="ES1370">ES1370</a> (PCI), Basic Sound Device </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a> <a href="/wiki/Network_card" class="mw-redirect" title="Network card">network card</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/NE2000" class="mw-redirect" title="NE2000">NE2000</a> (ISA/PCI) <a href="/wiki/Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a> or Intel(R) 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet adapter (PCI)<sup id="cite_ref-bochs_sourceforge_net-features_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bochs_sourceforge_net-features-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chipset" title="Chipset">Chipset</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Intel_430FX&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Intel 430FX (page does not exist)">Intel 430FX</a> PCI, <a href="/wiki/Intel_440FX" title="Intel 440FX">Intel 440FX</a> PCI and <a href="/wiki/Intel_440BX" title="Intel 440BX">Intel 440BX</a> AGP northbridge. <a href="/wiki/PIIX3" class="mw-redirect" title="PIIX3">PIIX3</a> and <a href="/wiki/PIIX4" class="mw-redirect" title="PIIX4">PIIX4</a> southbridge. For PCI cards there are 5 PCI slots. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal Serial Bus">USB</a></td> <td>Root hub and the devices mouse (optional), tablet, keypad (default), disk. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing" title="Symmetric multiprocessing">SMP</a></td> <td>Can simulate up to 8 CPUs. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Enhanced <a href="/wiki/BIOS" title="BIOS">BIOS</a> or <a href="/wiki/SeaBIOS" title="SeaBIOS">SeaBIOS</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/El_Torito_(CD-ROM_standard)" class="mw-redirect" title="El Torito (CD-ROM standard)">ElTorito</a>, <a href="/wiki/INT_13H#EDD" title="INT 13H">EDD</a>, <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Power_Management" title="Advanced Power Management">APM</a>, <a href="/wiki/PCIBIOS" class="mw-redirect" title="PCIBIOS">PCIBIOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conventional_PCI" class="mw-redirect" title="Conventional PCI">PCI</a> interrupt routing table, <a href="/wiki/Legacy_PnP" class="mw-redirect" title="Legacy PnP">PnP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Advanced Configuration and Power Interface">ACPI</a>, <a href="/wiki/System_Management_Mode" title="System Management Mode">SMM</a>, <a href="/wiki/MultiProcessor_Specification" title="MultiProcessor Specification">MPS</a> and <a href="/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions" title="VESA BIOS Extensions">VBE</a>. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bochs&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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