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Created: Saturday, July 7 2007 23:41.00 CDT

Modified: Saturday, July 7 2007 23:41.46 CDT

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Windows XP and Bochs

Author: ero

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This might be of interest for anyone out there attempting to get Windows XP to install inside Bochs with no luck.

I had not been able to get it to install in any recent version, for one reason or another it always failed during install with a problem regarding the "catalogs" (error message was along the lines of "Setup failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal error."). No matter what options I had compiled in Bochs.

I had got it to install in the past... a long long time ago, so I figured out that I might get lucky with other versions of Bochs, so I started trying. 1.4.1 nothing, 2.0.2 nothing, 2.1.1 nothing (trying all of them with different configuration options, that took a while)... but finally got to 2.2.6 and bingo! it made it through with no errors! Once installed the image runs just fine in the latest incarnation of Bochs. Here it is, Bochs running Windows XP on Fedora running inside Parallels on my OS X...

Virtualization(emulation) = madness^2 ?

I hope this saves somebody from hours of compiling, recompiling and reinstalling...

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