Chapter 5. Using Bochs

Table of Contents
Command line arguments
Search order for the configuration file
The configuration interface 'textconfig'

- using plugins ?
- Resources for users
testing status page: tells what has been tried and who got it working
search on bochs web site
SourceForge
  look for bug reports
  how to report problems, make feature requests
    

Command line arguments

The following table shows the arguments that can be used on the command line. For other arguments, see section bochsrc.

Table 5-1. command line arguments

ArgumentDescription
-q quick start (skip configuration interface)
-f filename specify configuration file
-n don't try to load a configuration file
--help display help message and exit

These arguments are handled directly after starting Bochs. The next step is to load a default or specified configuration file (unless disabled with -n). Then the rest of the command line (bochsrc options) is parsed. This is done after reading the configuration file so that the command line arguments can override the settings from the file.