A Server for Bochs/Plex86

[Charles Pilkington]

X-Odus wrote:
> 
> For those of you who don't know, Bochs and Plex86 are both x86
> emulators.  They allow you to run an OS inside a window on whatever
> native OS you are running.  I thought of the idea of running 3 or 4
> emulators on a fast machine on my network, then running VNC on each of
> those emulated OS's.  

BTW, that is more-or-less what LiVE does (http://live.amirix.com).  I
only have redhat 6.0 installed at the moment, but potentially can run a
variety

But LiVE uses VMWARE.  I gather you would prefer to stay with GPL code?

I got a polite email from VMWARE folks saying my LiVE project was
breaking the VMWARE license, but they don't mind, as it is just a
"technology demo".  The joys of using non-GPL software!


> This would allow me to access which ever OS I
> wanted, when I wanted, and It wouldn't bog down my main computer.  After
> taking a deeper look at Bochs and Plex86, I noticed that niether one has
> decent support for virtualizing network cards, this would make it hard
> to run VNC inside the emulated OS.  Instead, I went about it a different
> way.
> 
> Bochs and Plex86 both have a set of GUI stubs to allow easy porting to
> various GUI enviroments.  In my case, the envirment was the RFB
> Protocol.  I looked over the source code for the other GUI's and started
> what I call Bochs-RFB.  This project is still in very early alpha
> stages.  Basic text output is shown, and discolored graphics.  These
> will both be worked on.  Keyboard input is working, but mouse is not.
> 
> I have a small page up describing Bochs-RFB located at:
> http://www.psyon.org/bochs-rfb/index.html
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions or comments about the project.
> 
> Thank You
> Donald Becker

Seems like an interesting approach.  Not clear to me if it is
faster/better than fixing the network card emulation...???


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