Bochs (How easy)

[Robert Persson]

I tried getting Bochs running under macos 8.5/9.1 and it was a complete 
bastard. The instructions are clear as mud and I just could not work out 
how to get it running with a disk image on which I could install an 
operating system.

I used to use SoftWindows95 on a mac I once owned and that was pretty slow 
(as this kind of emulation will inevitably be).  From what I have heard, 
Bochs would be even slower.

You might be better off getting an old Pentium machine and a 14" monitor 
through your local free-ads, if you have one where you live.  If you live 
in a major urban centre in a developed country you could probably do it 
for under US$40 / EUR50.  If you have an ethernet hub or a router at home 
you could forget the monitor and control your Windows box from your YDL 
one using VNC.  I suspect the performance would be much better than Bochs 
would ever give you.

Hope this helps
Robert Persson



On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:33:58 -0700, John <jmdennis@atsecure.net> wrote:

> I would like to know how easy Bochs is to install and how stable it is. 
>   I have a machine that I would like to install YDL on, but need to run 
> Windows on it.  I just need it so I can study for my MCP and then I can 
> get rid of Windows.  I have Mac OS X on this machine, but I want to 
> reclaim my hard drive as on my iMac I can only use the first 8 gigs for 
> Mac OS X and I have a much bigger hard drive then that.
>
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