Bochs Inconsistency

[shad]

Bochs is great. But sometimes ill run some code on bochs that works great and i mosy along continuing to code. BUT THEN i test it on the real cpu only to find a triple fault hidden somewhere in my code.... Why doesnt bochs catch it?

[slacker]

bochs will not run 100% like a real pc because of the fact it isnt the actual pc. there are proboly errors in the code that cant be fixed because its an emulator and not the real thing. i know for a fact that the timer is messed up in bochs.

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So far I have had really good luck with VMWARE. It has done everything the real PC does - even if it is not what I intended. Even the screen flicker from my refresh rate is there... I have not used Bochs yet, but have planned on getting it for some time now.

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[Thunder]

TO Mark,
hey when I'm using Bochs or VMware (I have kernel in 800x600x8bpp resolution VESA mode) an these two emulators implement that this video mode is text mode and write some characters, but when I restart computer with floppy everything goes all right. Do I need change resolution or bits per pixel?

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I'm not sure what you are asking. Is there such a thing as 800x600 text mode?

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