Windows 8

Contributed by Benjamin David Lunt

Please read the message regarding software licenses in the Section called Third Party Software Licensing and Temporary Files in the Chapter called Introduction to Bochs before you install Windows 8 as a guest operating system in Bochs.

Windows 8 has been reported to install from the CD-ROM, and run inside Bochs. Here are a few settings that seem to work well when running on a Windows10 host, running at 3.0Ghz.

romimage: file=D:/path/to/your/bios/BIOS-bochs-latest
cpu: model=broadwell_ult
cpu: count=1, ips=150000000, reset_on_triple_fault=1, ignore_bad_msrs=1
cpu: cpuid_limit_winnt=0
clock: sync=realtime, time0=local
memory: guest=2048, host=2048
vgaromimage: file=D:/path/to/your/bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest-cirrus
vga: extension=cirrus, update_freq=5
pci: enabled=1, chipset=i440fx, slot1=cirrus

Don't set it to more than 250,000,000. Anything faster and Win8 seems to be sluggish, but seems to work well with an IPS setting of 150,000,000 on a 3.0Ghz host.