SGI: Development

All,

I have build and uploaded neko_bochs-2.3.7 to the ftp site (incoming). I have successfully booted both freedos and linux.

Enjoy!

Eric

Have you ever tried to run a graphical desktop with linux (or any Microsoft OS) running under bochs? So as to make bochs a useful alternative to SoftWindows, on reasonably fast SGI hardware (e.g. Fuel 600 Mhz)
I've tried the ancient freeware version some time ago, and anything graphical seemed completely unresponsive.

Oliver

The last time I use Bochs to run a Windows OS (Windows 95) was back on an R5k O2 if I remember correctly. It was slow thats for sure.

Bochs has gotten quite a bit faster back then (still interpreted x86 tho), and pretty big jump from an R5k to R14/16k. I've been meaning to find my Windows 2000 OEM install disk and get this installed (on my TODO list). Once I get it up and running I'll let you know how it performs relative to Windows 95 on Softwindows.

I'm also working on building QEMU 0.91. I did have QEMU 0.7x running quite a while ago on my old Octane and that was considerably faster then Bochs. Probably going to be awhile until I get back to QEMU 0.91, but if I get it built and working will post it up.

Best regards,
Eric

Yes, (neko_)qemu would really be a nice achievement!!! There was a patch set for IRIX (version 0.8 ), but this has become non-functional with ongoing changes in the code.

Good luck
Oliver

Just a comment... the patch file is missing in the tardist or to be more clear it contains an empty file. But thats all


Thx for the contributions!

regards
Joerg

Great work!

Any news concerning the qemu port?

Oliver