[plug] plex86 + bochs

[Jason H. Smith]

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On Friday 02 May 2003 09:54 pm, Chris Caston wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone here has had any success using plex86 + bochs
> to run Windows on top of Linux.

Hi.  I've played with both recently, and unfortunately for my patience, 
bochs seems much more stable.  I wanted to run win98 to test IE 
rendering, but it's really just too slow for that.  (I'm not blaming 
bochs, that's just the nature of the approach.)  XP didn't install for 
me, but they say it works in the docs.  Now I don't remember why I didn't 
try 2000 -- probably for performance reasons.

With all the plex86 I tried, I couldn't really get anything workable out 
of it; either from scratch or with help from bochs.  I ended up just 
dropping it because it was actually running slower than my bochs system.

I do know that bochs emulates a system, i.e. emulated ne2k ethernet, 
emulated VGA, etc. so if you try to boot that on plex86, the guest OS 
will not be too happy.  Of course, that shouldn't crash anything, but 
hey; you're playing with black magic as it is.

> 2. I released a proof-of-concept tarball of a bochs+plex86
> configuration which demonstrated a simple "cycle-burn" user program,

Wow, I hadn't realized that.  Interesting indeed.  I remember that the 
plex86 web page was impossible to navigate; and also that the bochs guy 
sort of lost interest in emulation and wanted to play with 
virtualization; so maybe this is a win.

If you have any luck with the hybrid, please let me/us know!

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