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layout: post title: "Bochs" subtitle: "In two versions" tags: [osdev]
For testing out my os during development, I usually use Bochs
I also usually compile Bochs into two versions. One that has the debugger option enabled and one that runs entirely in a command line environment.
Let's go!
curl -L -O http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.5.1/bochs-2.5.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf bochs-2.5.1.tar.gz
mkdir build-bochs
cd build-bochs
../bochs-2.5.1/configure --enable-smp --enable-cpu-level=6 --enable-all-optimizations --enable-pci --enable-vmx --enable-logging --enable-fpu --enable-sb16=dummy --enable-cdrom --disable-plugins --disable-docbook --with-term
make all
make install
{: .prettyprint .lan-sh}
And that's the terminal version. ### Important note This configure line won't actually work. I'll update with the new one as soon as I can.
Now we move this to bochs-term and compile the version with the debugger.
mv /usr/local/bin/bochs /usr/local/bin/bochs-term
rm *
../bochs-2.5.1/configure --enable-smp --enable-cpu-level=6 --enable-all-optimizations --enable-pci --enable-vmx --enable-logging --enable-fpu --enable-sb16=dummy --enable-cdrom --disable-plugins --disable-docbook --enable-debugger --enable-disasm --with-x11
make all
make install
{: .prettyprint .lan-sh}
Finally, copy the bochs bioses to a public place
cp -r ../bochs-2.5.1/bios /usr/share/bochs
{: .prettyprint .lan-sh}
And that's it.