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Bochs runs and displays stuff, but is not accepting my input — what gives?

April 26, 2017accepting bochs displays gives input stuff

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Bochs runs and displays stuff, but is not accepting my input — what gives?

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The most likely thing that’s happening is that you’re running bochs with the display_library configuration item (in the bochs configuration file) set to nogui. The output you’re seeing is redirected to the terminal for you by bochs, but there is effectively no way to get any input to the simulated operating system. You can hit ctrl-C to get dumped back to the bochs debugger prompt (if that’s compiled into your version of bochs) and interact with bochs, or, if you really need to interact with the simulated OS, run bochs with a valid display_library setting that allows it (e.g., term, x, sdl, etc.