[vox-tech] bochs

Ryan Castellucci vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:31:46 -0700


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On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:59 am, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Just wondering if any of you guys got this working.
>
> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
>
>   What I want to achieve :
>
>   on Windoze(in my office system offcourse) install redhat using bochs =
so
> that I can work on linux
>
>   on Linux(my home system) install winXP using bochs so that I can work=
 on
> VB, VC++ for my part time college purposes.
>
>   Is it possible?
>
>   I know VMWare, Virtual PC can do this but those are properitery.

Bochs is a full blown emulator. This makes it much slower then VMware, wh=
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is a virtualization program, that runs native code. I doubt you'll find=20
Windows XP useble under bochs.

As to using redhat under windows, why not ssh in to your home machine? if=
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need X, then install cygwin's xfree86 port, or wiredx.net. you may want t=
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use an x protocal compresser.

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