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Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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268 points walterbell | 3 comments | 05 Apr 25 10:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.635s | source
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LorenDB ◴[05 Apr 25 14:48 UTC] No.43593922[source]▶
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.
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jchw ◴[05 Apr 25 15:13 UTC] No.43594092[source]▶
Very amusing idea, but:

> Take a phone that has pretty good hardware support for postmarketOS

The first problem with this is finding a phone with postmarketOS that can both use the camera and take phone calls properly. I'd settle for that without the iOS/Android emulation...

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1231231231e ◴[05 Apr 25 15:35 UTC] No.43594252[source]▶
Ah yes. It appears that nothing has changed in the last decade for the Android ROM community. Still the same experience as downloading a custom ROM from "XDA Developers" for your HTC phone in 2016 and then finding out that it can't make phone calls and is bugged beyond comprehension.
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1. naitgacem ◴[05 Apr 25 16:22 UTC] No.43594581[source]▶
I'm running a custom ROM on a Galaxy S8 (so without project treble) and I've been pleasantly surprised!

Even something as niche as the swipe on fingerprint sensor to pull notifications drawer down still works!

Everything from phone calls, camera, fingerprint, all the essentials work pretty much flawlessly.

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2. mmooss ◴[06 Apr 25 05:57 UTC] No.43599261[source]▶
Which custom ROM?
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3. naitgacem ◴[07 Apr 25 06:14 UTC] No.43608361[source]▶
LineageOS, the "successor" to CyanogenMod of the day