NAME¶
bochs - Portable x86 Emulator.
SYNOPSIS¶
bochs [
bochs_options] [
bochsrc_options]
DESCRIPTION¶
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 Linux and Microsoft(R) Windows(R).
OPTIONS¶
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.
- -r path
- Restore the Bochs state from path
- -log filename
- Specify Bochs log file name
- -h, --help
- Print a summary of the command line options for bochs and exit.
- -h, --help features
- Display available features / devices and exit
- -h, --help cpu
- Display supported CPU models 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'
LICENSE¶
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 warranty.
AVAILABILITY¶
The latest version of this program can be found at:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html
SEE ALSO¶
bochsrc(5), bochs-dlx(1),
bximage(1),
bxcommit(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
AUTHORS¶
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
BUGS¶
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.