Fravia's TOOLS OF OUR TRADE Messageboard ~ Moderated
Re: Re: Re: binary charge
Sunday, 07-Feb-99 18:43:35

> he-he, i'm interested how they do with the i/o ports?

They simply don't (at the moment). Bochs "Panics" when something accesses a port and stops.

The emulator is still a little way away from being useful in the way that you guys have suggested. For starters, from what I can tell, the Bochs debugger is not fully ready yet? i.e, you can't load files with it. (However, you *might* be able to get around this - I have an idea)

Some "basic" tools won't run properly on bochs with DOS either, I.e DEBUG and/or MAP. :(

BTW, Viruses that are not too tricky, replicate fine under bochs - including MBR viruses. The added advantage of infecting a Bochs image is that you can step through the entire boot process too. Nifty, huh? :)

Given that an Image of about 100Mb will compress down to around 3-4Mb (depending how full it is), letting a virus nuke the disk is not a big deal either. :)

Have fun,

JJ

JJ