Installing Bochs on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

marcio · Post by **marcio** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:32 am

Hi,

Can someone help me with installing Bochs on Ubuntu (actually is Kubuntu, but I think this doesn't really matters that much)?

This is what I've tried, but without success:
- Since I didn't have the "rpm" command line utility I downloaded its source code ("rpm-4.4.2.1.tar.gz") and tried to install it:
$ ./configure
$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1/po'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1/po'
Making all in misc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1/misc'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -fno-strict-aliasing -MT glob.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/glob.Tpo -c -o glob.o glob.c
In file included from glob.c:47:
../system.h:295:29: error: selinux/selinux.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [glob.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1/misc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

- As that didn't work out I tried to unarchive the Bochs rpm file with 7-Zip:
$ 7z x bochs-2.3-1.i586.rpm
$ 7z x bochs-2.3-1.i586.cpio.gz
$ 7z x \[Content\]
Then I moved the folder "usr" to the filesystem root and:
$ chmod +x /usr/bin/bochs* /usr/bin/bx*
$ bochs
5 <ENTER>
00000000000i[ ] installing sdl module as the Bochs GUI
00000000000i[ ] Bochs x86 Emulator 2.3
00000000000i[ ] Build from CVS snapshot on August 27, 2006
00000000000i[ ] System configuration
00000000000i[ ] processors: 1 (cores=1, HT threads=1)
00000000000i[ ] A20 line support: yes
00000000000i[ ] APIC support: no
00000000000i[ ] CPU configuration
00000000000i[ ] level: 5
00000000000i[ ] paging support: yes, tlb enabled: yes
00000000000i[ ] SMP support: no
00000000000i[ ] FPU support: yes
00000000000i[ ] MMX support: yes
00000000000i[ ] SSE support: no
00000000000i[ ] v8086 mode support: yes
00000000000i[ ] VME support: yes
00000000000i[ ] 3dnow! support: no
00000000000i[ ] PAE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PGE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PSE support: yes
00000000000i[ ] x86-64 support: no
00000000000i[ ] SEP support: no
00000000000i[ ] Optimization configuration
00000000000i[ ] Guest2HostTLB support: no
00000000000i[ ] RepeatSpeedups support: no
00000000000i[ ] Icache support: no
00000000000i[ ] Host Asm support: yes
00000000000i[ ] Fast function calls: no
00000000000i[ ] Devices configuration
00000000000i[ ] NE2000 support: no
00000000000i[ ] PCI support: no
00000000000i[ ] SB16 support: no
00000000000i[ ] USB support: no
00000000000i[ ] VGA extension support:
00000000000i[MEM0 ] allocated memory at 0xb5a7c008. after alignment, vector=0xb5a7d000
00000000000i[MEM0 ] 32.00MB
00000000000i[MEM0 ] rom at 0xffff0000/65536 ('/usr/local/share/bochs/BIOS-bochs-latest')
00000000000i[MEM0 ] rom at 0xc0000/38400 ('/usr/local/share/bochs/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest')
00000000000i[CMOS ] Using local time for initial clock
00000000000i[CMOS ] Setting initial clock to: Sat Aug 4 14:42:27 2007 (time0=1186234947)
00000000000i[DMA ] channel 4 used by cascade
00000000000i[DMA ] channel 2 used by Floppy Drive
00000000000i[MEM0 ] Register memory access handlers: 000a0000-000bffff
00000000000p[SDL ] >>PANIC<< Unable to initialize SDL libraries
00000000000i[SYS ] Last time is 1186234947
00000000000i[ ] restoring default signal behavior
================================================== ======================
Bochs is exiting with the following message:
[SDL ] Unable to initialize SDL libraries
================================================== ======================
00000000000i[CTRL ] quit_sim called with exit code 1

- After this I tried to compile Bochs ("bochs-2.3.tar.gz"):
$ ./configure
configure: WARNING: Bochs for wxWidgets cannot be compiled here, disabling it
checking for default gui on this platform... x11
ERROR: X windows gui was selected, but X windows libraries were not found.

- Then I saw it could use SDL, so I downloaded SDL ("SDL-1.2.12.zip") and compiled it:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

- Proceeded to Bochs:
$ ./configure --with-sdl
$ make
$ sudo make install

- No problems here so I tried to run Bochs once again:
$ bochs
5 <ENTER>
00000000000i[ ] installing sdl module as the Bochs GUI
00000000000i[ ] using log file bochsout.txt
================================================== ======================
Bochs is exiting with the following message:
[SDL ] Unable to initialize SDL libraries
================================================== ======================

- After that I tried to use the SDL rpm file ("SDL-1.2.12-1.i386.rpm"):
$ 7z x SDL-1.2.12-1.i386.rpm
$ 7z x SDL-1.2.12-1.i386.cpio.gz
$ 7z x SDL-1.2.12-1.i386.cpio

- Moved the folder "usr" to the filesystem root and:
$ bochs
5 <ENTER>
00000000000i[ ] installing sdl module as the Bochs GUI
00000000000i[ ] Bochs x86 Emulator 2.3
00000000000i[ ] Build from CVS snapshot on August 27, 2006
00000000000i[ ] System configuration
00000000000i[ ] processors: 1 (cores=1, HT threads=1)
00000000000i[ ] A20 line support: yes
00000000000i[ ] APIC support: no
00000000000i[ ] CPU configuration
00000000000i[ ] level: 5
00000000000i[ ] paging support: yes, tlb enabled: yes
00000000000i[ ] SMP support: no
00000000000i[ ] FPU support: yes
00000000000i[ ] MMX support: yes
00000000000i[ ] SSE support: no
00000000000i[ ] v8086 mode support: yes
00000000000i[ ] VME support: yes
00000000000i[ ] 3dnow! support: no
00000000000i[ ] PAE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PGE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PSE support: yes
00000000000i[ ] x86-64 support: no
00000000000i[ ] SEP support: no
00000000000i[ ] Optimization configuration
00000000000i[ ] Guest2HostTLB support: no
00000000000i[ ] RepeatSpeedups support: no
00000000000i[ ] Icache support: no
00000000000i[ ] Host Asm support: yes
00000000000i[ ] Fast function calls: no
00000000000i[ ] Devices configuration
00000000000i[ ] NE2000 support: no
00000000000i[ ] PCI support: no
00000000000i[ ] SB16 support: no
00000000000i[ ] USB support: no
00000000000i[ ] VGA extension support:
00000000000i[MEM0 ] allocated memory at 0xb5ac0008. after alignment, vector=0xb5ac1000
00000000000i[MEM0 ] 32.00MB
00000000000i[MEM0 ] rom at 0xffff0000/65536 ('/usr/local/share/bochs/BIOS-bochs-latest')
00000000000i[MEM0 ] rom at 0xc0000/38400 ('/usr/local/share/bochs/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest')
00000000000i[CMOS ] Using local time for initial clock
00000000000i[CMOS ] Setting initial clock to: Sat Aug 4 14:52:16 2007 (time0=1186235536)
00000000000i[DMA ] channel 4 used by cascade
00000000000i[DMA ] channel 2 used by Floppy Drive
00000000000i[MEM0 ] Register memory access handlers: 000a0000-000bffff
00000000000p[SDL ] >>PANIC<< Unable to initialize SDL libraries
00000000000i[SYS ] Last time is 1186235536
00000000000i[ ] restoring default signal behavior
================================================== ======================
Bochs is exiting with the following message:
[SDL ] Unable to initialize SDL libraries
================================================== ======================
00000000000i[CTRL ] quit_sim called with exit code 1

- Finally I tried with WxWidgets ("wxWidgets-2.8.4.tar.gz"):
$ ./configure --with-x11 --disable-shared --enable-log --enable-debug -without-odbc --enable-debug_cntxt
configure: error: X11 not found, please use --x-includes and/or --x-libraries options (see config.log for details)

$ ./configure --with-sdl --disable-shared --enable-log --enable-debug -without-odbc --enable-debug_cntxt
configure: error: X11 not found, please use --x-includes and/or --x-libraries options (see config.log for details)

Thanks!

marcio · Post by **marcio** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:18 am

Never mind guys, I have successfully installed it. Thanks anyway.

JamesM · Post by **JamesM** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:12 am

You use ubuntu, so

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sudo apt-get install bochs

would have done it. Use APT instead of RPM. And if you only have an RPM (i.e. the code isn't on the APT repository) use alien.

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sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -i <my RPM>.rpm

JamesM

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:29 am

Will apt work if you want to customize your version? (eg. debugger, disassembler, x86_64 support, etc.)

Just use the sources for that. IMO, RPM pretty much is an outdated package management system. (Anyone who's ever used Suse will know what I mean.)

marcio · Post by **marcio** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:33 pm

JamesM wrote:You use ubuntu, so
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sudo apt-get install bochs
would have done it. Use APT instead of RPM. And if you only have an RPM (i.e. the code isn't on the APT repository) use alien.
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sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -i <my RPM>.rpm
JamesM

Too late now

I installed the Synaptic Package Manager and used it to download and install Bochs since I don't (didn't) know how to do it via command line.

Alboin wrote:(...) Just use the sources for that. (...)

I created this thread precisely because I couldn't compile it