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Bochs 2.6.10

Description

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 many different x86 CPUs, from early 386 to the most recent x86-64 Intel and AMD processors which may even not reached the market yet.

 

Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS or Microsoft Windows. Bochs was originally written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project.

 

Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are still in development. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete x86 PC emulation, including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory. This allows you to run OS's and software within the emulator on your workstation, much like you have a machine inside of a machine. For instance, let's say your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run Win'95 applications. Bochs will allow you to run Win 95 and associated software on your Unix/X11 workstation, displaying a window on your workstation, simulating a monitor on a PC.

Changelog

Changes in 2.6.10 (December 1, 2019):

 

Brief summary:

  • CPU: Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (critical bugfixes for PCID, ADCX/ADOX, MOVBE, AVX/AVX-512 and VMX emulation)
  • CPU: implemented AVX-512 VBMI2/VNNI/BITALG, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ / GFNI instructions emulation
  • VMX: Implement EPT-Based Sub-Page Protection
  • CPUID: Added new CPU models Skylake-X, Cannonlake and Icelake-U
  • CPUID: Implemented side-channel attack prevention reporting and corresponding MSR registers, enabled for Icelake-U
  • Added basic support for the i440BX PCI/AGP chipset.
  • Added basic Voodoo Banshee / Voodoo3 emulation support.
  • Added basic DDC support for the VGA-compatible adapters.
  • Implemented HPET emulation (ported from Qemu).

Links

bochs: The Open Source IA-32 Emulation Project (Home Page)

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