#BOCHS SERVICE MAC OS#

Bochs also has extensive debugging features. It provides additional security by completely isolating the guest OS from the hardware. It doesn't utilize any host CPU virtualization features, therefore is slower than most virtualization (as opposed to emulation) software. Use Д«ochs emulates the hardware needed by PC operating systems, including hard drives, CD drives, and floppy drives. That changed on 22 March 2000, when Mandrakesoft (later Mandriva) bought Bochs from lead developer Kevin Lawton and released it for Linux under the GNU Lesser General Public License. If a user needed to link it to other software, that user would have to negotiate a special license.

It can also be used to run older software-such as PC games-which will not run on non-compatible, or too fast computers.Д«ochs started as a program with a commercial license, at the price of US$25, for use as-is. Bochs runs on many host operating systems, including Android, Linux, macOS, PlayStation 2, Windows, and Windows Mobile.Д«ochs is mostly used for operating system development (when an emulated operating system crashes, it does not crash the host operating system, so the emulated OS can be debugged) and to run other guest operating systems inside already running host operating systems.

#BOCHS SERVICE MAC OS#

Many guest operating systems can be run using the emulator including DOS, several versions of Microsoft Windows, BSDs, Linux, Xenix and Rhapsody (precursor of Mac OS X). It supports emulation of the processor(s) (including protected mode), memory, disks, display, Ethernet, BIOS and common hardware peripherals of PCs. Windows, Linux, BSD ( FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin), OS/2, BeOS, MorphOS, AmigaOS, Android Д«ochs (pronounced 'box') is a portable IA-32 and x86-64 IBM PC compatible emulator and debugger mostly written in C++ and distributed as free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

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