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On 09/03/10 16:05, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Friday 03 September 2010 11:21:05 Christopher Howard wrote:
>> Anybody played around with Bochs?
>>
>> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I was looking for something with an acceptable FOSS license (unlike
>> VBox) and that didn't need GCC-3 to compile (unlike Qemu). Just heard
>> about this Bochs IA-32 emulator.
>
>
> If you mean VirtualBox from Oracle, there is a OSE version, it is GPL. The source
> is available but I am thinking most/all the work on it is in house, but gpl is
> gpl.
>
> As joshua points out, GNU/Linux has KVM, which afaikt, is being promoted (by some)
> as the libre solution.
>
In Gentoo, it seems that the virtual-ose ebuild depends on
virtual-ose-additions, which is under Sun's PUEL license, which only
allows personal/education with with restrictions on host/client connections.
I hadn't heard about KVM. I've been having a good experience with Bochs
so far, once I compiled the latest source from the website (2.4.5, April
2010). Bochs is actually a true emulator (non-native), so performance is
worse, but there are some advantages also: no external dependencies
required for compiling; and no host system alterations are required.
Bochs isn't quite as 'click-and-go' as VirtualBox, but the options menus
are pretty easy to figure out so far.
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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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