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Bochs 2.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the inside-the-outside-the dept.

Jas Sandys-Lumsdaine writes "Bochs 2.0 has just been released - project lead Bryce Denney writes: "It's been a busy 6 months since our previous release! Bochs is now about twice as fast as version 1.4.1. Also, we can now emulate MMX instructions, SSE/SSE2, and even AMD x86-64 instructions if you turn on the appropriate configure options. The emulation improvements have paid off; several people have been able to install Windows XP recently." Excellent stuff."

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  1. What we need now... by bakes · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is some idiot to try to run Windows apps inside WINE running in Bochs under VMWare.

    And don't tell me you didn't all think the same thing as soon as you found out what Bochs was.

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    1. Re:What we need now... by Valar · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, he means eteel. Isn't everyone on slashdot seeking true eteelness?

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  2. If you do this enough... by raygundan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just build layer after layer of virtualization like that (Bochs running Windows VMWare in WINE on VirtualPC in a Mac emulator on Linux on VMWare on Bochs etc...) and eventually you'll have enough virtualization that you can pull the original hardware out from under it all, and your "virtual PC" will just run on it's own without hardware. The trick is just getting enough layers of software in their so that they all support eachother's hardware needs.