Turn back to Bochs

After a few days tried to use QEMU as an emulator for studying low-level software, it turned out to me that QEMU doesn't support much for debugging. Things like step-by-step run, set break points,... is unable. Then I went back to have a try with Bochs. It's amazing that Bochs is not that hard as I've ever thought. It even provides very good debugging features.

Here're some of my notes on Bochs installation and use:

  1. Download Bochs source code at http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html

  2. Extract Bochs code
      $ gunzip -c bochs-version.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

  3. Configure to use debugger
      $ ./configure --enable-debugger --enable-disasm

  4. Install

    $ make

    $ sudo make install

  5. There an example Bochs configs file name .bochsrc at extracted dir

  6. Using Bochs debugger
      http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/internal-debugger.html