bochs - Portable x86 Emulator.
Contents
Availability
The latest version of this program can be found at: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.htmlBugs
Please report all bugs to the bug tracker on our web site. Just go to http://bochs.sourceforge.net,
and click "Bug Reports" on the sidebar under "Feedback".
Provide a detailed description of the bug, the version of the program you are running, the operating
system you are running the program on and the operating system you are running in the emulator.
bochs 2.8 4 Apr 2020 bochs(1)
Description
Bochs is a portable Intel Architecture 32 (x86) emulator that runs on most popular operating systems.
Inside the emulator, it can run many operating systems including Linux and Microsoft(R) Windows(R).
License
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation. See the LGPL file located in /usr/share/common-licenses/ for details on
the license and the lack of warranty.
Name
bochs - Portable x86 Emulator.
Options
When you run Bochs without one of the following options, it will search for a configuration file called
.bochsrc in the current directory and your home directory and display the start menu.
-q With this option the start menu will be skipped after loading the configuration file.
-fconfigfile
This option specifies the name of the configuration file.
-qfconfigfile
When you run Bochs with this option, it will skip the start menu and use the specified
configuration file.
-n With this option Bochs doesn't load a configuration file. In that case the setup for the
emulation must be done with bochsrc options on the command line or in the start menu.
-benchmarkN
Run Bochs in benchmark mode for N millions of emulated ticks
-dumpstatsN
Dump Bochs stats every N millions of emulated ticks
-rpath
Restore the Bochs state from path
-logfilename
Specify Bochs log file name
-unlock
Unlock Bochs images leftover from previous session
-h,--help
Print a summary of the command line options for Bochs and exit
-h,--helpfeatures
Display available features / devices and exit
-h,--helpcpu
Display supported CPU models and exit
You can override the settings from the configuration file with command line arguments, using the same
syntax as the bochsrc file. If you have any spaces in your command line arguments, they should be
enclosed in single quotes. For information on Bochs command line and configuration file arguments, see
the man page bochsrc(5).
Example:
bochs -q 'boot:a' 'floppya: 1_44=a.img, status=inserted'
See Also
bochsrc(5), bochs-dlx(1), bximage(1) The Bochs IA-32 Emulator site on the World Wide Web: http://bochs.sourceforge.net Online Bochs Documentation http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook
Synopsis
bochs [bochs_options] [bochsrc_options]
