I'm trying to get Puppy Linux to work within Bochs to test the compatibility of DF with different emulated CPUs, and it's taking upwards of forever to actually boot. I can't tell if it's just crashed, or if the speed of the emulator is causing it to be really damn slow. Fucking hell. This isn't the first time either. I literally left my PC overnight trying to get Bochs to boot Lubuntu. I have actual footage on my hard drive of the 7 hour, 26 minute and 53 second affair, and it didn't even boot. Just the endless blinking cursor. In both cases, even if it booted, it would've taken far too long, since I need to restart the VM at least 3-4 times to reconfigure the emulated CPU.
I'm sure there's something even more lightweight that might work, but I'm not familiar enough with Linux to really try and get something to work. That, or I need to admit defeat and just run the Windows version of 43.04 and hope that the results there are applicable to Linux 47.04. It would compromise the validity of my results, and I wouldn't be happy with it because of that. I'm testing 47.04, not 43.04, and I really don't want to compromise on that. Maybe QEMU could work, but that seems even more like a pain in the ass to set up, as if Bochs wasn't hard enough.
(I'll probably rephrase this thing into something more professional in the appropriate thread, but for now, I'm just upset.)