Bochs

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Bochs
Version 2.7 (Aug 2021)
Vendor Bochs Software Company
Author Kevin P. Lawton
License LGPL-2.1
Download Bochs
Website https://bochs.sourceforge.io

Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486 or Pentium CPU.

Version

  • (Mar 1998) - ported to XFree86/OS2 by Alex Spanidis
  • 1.0 (Mar 2000)
  • 1.4.1 (Sep 2002)
  • 2.0 (Dec 2002) - Craig S. Ballantyne
  • 2.2 (May 2005) - Cirrus SVGA card emulation
  • 2.2.5 (Dec 2005) - virtual 8086 mode extensions (VME)
  • 2.2.6 (Jan 2006) - Dmitry Froloff
  • 2.3 (Aug 2006) -
  • 2.3.5 (Sep 2007) - SSE4.1 instruction set emulation
  • 2.3.7 (Jun 2008) - LBA48 support
  • 2.6.11 (Jan 2020)

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