I had not been able to get it to install in any recent version, for one reason or another it always failed during install with a problem regarding the "catalogs" (error message was along the lines of "Setup failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal error."). No matter what options I had compiled in Bochs.
I had got it to install in the past... a long long time ago, so I figured out that I might get lucky with other versions of Bochs, so I started trying. 1.4.1 nothing, 2.0.2 nothing, 2.1.1 nothing (trying all of them with different configuration options, that took a while)... but finally got to 2.2.6 and bingo! it made it through with no errors! Once installed the image runs just fine in the latest incarnation of Bochs. Here it is, Bochs running Windows XP on Fedora running inside Parallels on my OS X...
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I hope this saves somebody from hours of compiling, recompiling and reinstalling...
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That's odd. I installed Windows XP within bochs 2.3 and also in some cvs version from shortly after the 2.3 release and it worked fine (IIRC).
Another useful hint: Always start the installation in a version of bochs that has all debugging features disabled / all optimizations enabled, otherwise you're in for a looooooong installation ;)
Maybe it depends on the Windows version? I know of other people who also were unable to get it working.
Or maybe I had some unlucky configuration settings that just happened to work on 2.2.6. (I tried stripping it down to a minimum on 2.3)
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