C Y wrote:
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> Also, clueless newbie question. Since Bochs emulates
> hardware devices, is it theoretically possible for a
> hardware library to be built up in order for Bochs to
> be compiled with support for specific, weird hardware
> that might be needed for a particular purpose?
That has been discussed here, and yes it is possible. We,
however, have not been working on this type of feature yet.
Also, we don't support Bochs here--we are working on plex86 (the
bochs plugin is not bochs itself).
> (Driver testing comes to mind...) Even better
> perhaps, could it have a compile option to look at the
> local BIOS and hardware on the computer and configure
> itself for that setup, so people who want to run, say,
> two systems on PC hardware could use their full system
> resources or even boot a Windows or Linux partition
> already on the computer?
Ok, some background:
plex86 is a virtual system. This means that plex86 offers access
to emulations of the basic generic hardware devices to the guess
OS. Being only at the software level, plex86 cannot virtualize
all of the hardware attached to your system (although limited
handling of some hardware may be possible in the future). What
plex86 does is provides access to the services provided by the
host system, emulating as little as possible. Therefore, what
the host BIOS says isn't all that relavent to the functioning of
the plex86 virtual machine at the moment. If, in the future,
plex86 provides direct usage of some hardware devices we will
have to reconcile this problem--but for now it is a non-issue.
> Apologies if this is
> discussed in the docs somewhere and I missed it.
Not a problem.
>
> starseeker
>
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