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Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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8 months agoby walterbell

I wish the https://github.com/devos50/qemu-ios project would evolve to support iPhone OS 3.x to experience many early iPhone apps for digital preservation's sake!

https://github.com/touchHLE/touchHLE is also great but needs patches for all but the most basic of apps.

8 months agoby markostamcar

That reminds me I once emulated a NumWorks N0100 [1] and a HP Prime G1 [2] with QEMU, to the point where the emulators managed to run the official firmware.

- [1] https://github.com/boricj/qemu/tree/numworks_calculators

- [2] https://github.com/boricj/qemu/tree/s3c2416-boricj

8 months agoby boricj

Archived version: https://archive.ph/l1CwO

8 months agoby znpy

Here's a fun way that this project could be applied: Take a phone that has pretty good hardware support for postmarketOS. Install a bare bones pmOS image, plus this version of QEMU, and boot iOS on and Android phone. It probably would be possible to further customize QEMU to forward all the phone hardware (modem, Bluetooth, etc.) into the iOS VM.

8 months agoby LorenDB

Does this mean I can finally do things like testing in safari and compiling to iOS on a Linux system, without owning Apple hardware?

8 months agoby amelius

https://github.com/ChefKissInc/QEMUAppleSilicon

> Apple Silicon devices emulated on QEMU, currently only iPhone 11.

demo video: https://nitter.poast.org/eshard/status/1908162866609311962

8 months agoby walterbell

Followed the instructions to run it: https://github.com/TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030/wiki/Bringing-... it has crashed on me more times than I care to admit. Pretty cool, though.

8 months agoby gonzaloalvarez

Is there a repository to reproduce this?

8 months agoby russianGuy83829

What would it take for Apple to embrace multiplatform iOS development?

8 months agoby candiddevmike

Edit: Removed. I made a stupid joke about a serious topic

8 months agoby exitnode

Hugged to death?

8 months agoby internetter

No mention of network connectivity - I suppose they aren't emulating the wifi or celluar modem chipsets? Wondering how they might connect this emulated device to the Internet, perhaps ethernet over USB or something like that?

8 months agoby shit_stabber

Do we think this is similar to the approach used by Corellium?

8 months agoby Zathu