Bochs 2.6.2

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 2.6.2 (May 26, 2013):

VMX: implemented VMENTER to non-active guest state (HLT, SHUTDOWN, WAIT-FOR-SIPI)
VMX: fixed write of guest segment access rights VMCS fields (32-bit field was truncated to 16-bit)
CPUID: Don't report Architectural Performance Monitoring in CPUID. Reporting true capabilities without actually supporting them breaks Win7 x64 installation.
CPUID: Fixed bx_generic CPUID std leafs (all std leafs > 2 were corrupted)
CPUID: Enable all supported VMX capabilities for bx_generic CPUID configuration.
CPUID: Enable X2APIC support for Ivy Bridge CPUDB configuration.

Configure and compile

Enabled VMX compilation by default in shortcut scripts.
Allow CPU_LEVEL=5 configurations (pentium_mmx and amd_k2_chomper) even when Bochs was compiled with CPU_LEVEL > 5.