You must read the message regarding software licenses inSection 1.6 before you install or use MS-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS orany other DOS as a guest operating system in Bochs.

1. Bosch Display Driver
2. Bosch Driver Bits
3. Bosch Driver Accessories
4. Linux Bochs Driver
5. Bochs Voodoo Driver

Bosch Display Driver

9.3.1. Accessing your CDROM

To access your CDROM in DOS, you must download an IDE CDROM driver.Bochs emulates a very generic CDROM drive, and several drivers are known towork. Others don't. This section describes how to set up yourconfig.sys and autoexec.bat to enablethe CDROM.

The drivers that have been reported to work areOAKCDROM.SYS that comes with several versions of Windowsand SBIDE.SYS version 1.21 from CreativeLabs[1] and OAKCDROM.SYS that comes with several versions of Windows.Copy the driver to your boot disk, and then set up the startup files as follows.

Download the latest Bochs installer for Windows. A Windows 98 CD-ROM or an ISO image of a CD Creating a Hard Disk Image First, run the “Disk Image Creation Tool” to create a hard disk image.

VBEMP.DRV is a standard Windows 9x™ Video Display Driver. It supports ALL of MS Windows 9x™ Family (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me) It supports a wide range of videocards emulated via virtualization software: Bochs, QEMU, VMware, Innotek VirtualBox, Microsoft VirtualPC. This Bosch 12-Volt Max Impact Driver offers the precision of variable speed (0-2,600 RPM), a light body, and a short head length. As powerful as it is compact, the driver packs a punch with a high torque of 930 inch-pounds for coverage of 80% of impact driving applications. The 'features' section of the Bochs user manual says exactly what Bochs supports. However, you wouldn't need to know unless you're ready to start writing a driver for the disk controller; and if you're ready to start writing a driver for the disk controller then you must've already done code to scan PCI buses and detect which PCI devices are present, which means your own software can tell you. Bochs is an x86 PC emulator and debugger licensed under the lesser GNU Public License (GPL). The platform provides emulation of an entire PC platform, including one or more processors and various PC peripherals, such as hard disks, display, CD-ROM drives, and other common peripherals.

If the files mentioned in config.sys andautoexec.bat are not in the root directory, give the fullpathname, like c:windowshimem.sys.

9.3.2. SB16 driver for DOS

To use the SB16 device in DOS you need to load a driver for it. The file SBBASIC.EXE contains a self-extracting archive with all required file.After unpacking it to C:SB16 you can execute INSTALL.EXEto install the driver. The file DISK.ID should contain the versionstring SDR-31STD-1-US (Revision 1).

9.3.3. Bootdisks of early DOS versions

On the Web there are bootdisks available for most of the DOS versions ever released,but some of them have been reported to fail in Bochs. The bootdisk for MS-DOS 1.25contains a boot sector of a newer DOS version, so it would fail on real hardware,too. The floppy image for MS-DOS 2.11 has a boot sector that tries to boot fromhard disk instead of the floppy.

Bosch Driver Bits

Bosch Driver Accessories

Notes[1]

Linux Bochs Driver

To get it, go to Creative Labs website, click on Support, then click Download Files. You get to a screenwhere you must select the operating system and the product for which you wantthe driver. Choose DOS as the operating system, and 'CD-ROM: 4x and above' asthe product. There are several choices, but you wantsbide121.exe from April 15, 1997. Version 2.0 does notwork. The download file is a self-extracting ZIP file, so onDOS or Windows you just run it; on other platforms you can try usingthe unzip command. The driver is called SBIDE.SYS.

Bochs Voodoo Driver