From the Bochs Homepage (http://bochs.sourceforge.net)
     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. Currently, Bochs can be 
compiled to emulate a 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro or AMD64 CPU, including 
optional MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow instructions.
	Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation
including Linux, Windows® 95, DOS, and Windows® NT 4. Bochs was 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. 

From the packager
	I have used bochs to create a virtual windows 95 and windows 98 
harddrive on my Vector Linux box.  

See: (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/howto.html#DISKIMAGEHOWTO) 

to get started, but basically, you create a virtual harddrive and then 
install software to it much as you normally would a real harddrive. This means
that if you want to run Windows applications you need a Windows disk and 
lisence.
	Bochs is NOT VMWare or some other such commercial offering. Below 
I offer some of my experiences trying to install windows on my Vector Linux 4.0
box, a 1.8 GHz Celeron with 256 MB RAM. I created a 1 GB disk drive since I 
really didn't need all that much space.

With Windows 95
	It took nearly 2 hours to install and then would only boot into 480x640
resolution with 256 colors.  The start menu would take about 2 seconds to come 
up and raising and lowering windows took a bit longer.  Many of the programs 
I had hoped to install would not work because they demanded larger windowing 
capabilities and more colors. Very sad. :-(.  However, it worked for some basic
windows games. Being discontent, I thought that maybe Windows 98 would be 
better....

With Windows 98
	But...that was a mistake.  Windows 98 took nearly 4 hours to install 
and then after all that would only boot to safe mode.  Again, nothing really 
worthwhile got working, but I could play with simple kiddie stuff.  Internet 
Explorer would not connect to the outside world (not necessarily a bad thing), 
but upon proper configuration, I could access the CDROM and floppy disk drive. 
And if possible, everything was even slower in Windows 98.

Cool stuff
	I did write some basic documents on Wordpad just to test my ability to 
transfer things from this virtual harddisk to my real harddisk.  My first 
thought was that I would need to write things out to floppy and then mount 
the floppy from Linux.  But with MToolsFM, this was not necessary.  MToolsFM 
allowed me to see my virtual Windows drive just fine and to read and write 
files to it.  If you feel the need to use Bochs, you should also get MToolsFM.

Summary
	Bochs is a nice toy if you have an app that is not a resource hog, 
but that for whatever reason won't run under Wine or CrossOver Office.  
It's limitations seem to be speed, some hardware access, and color/resolution.

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