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Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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268 points walterbell | 1 comments | 05 Apr 25 10:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.294s | 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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saidinesh5 ◴[05 Apr 25 18:17 UTC] No.43595422[source]▶
A lot of snapdragon 845 phones tend to work fairly well no?

I'm not sure what the status of the newer devices is but those older oneplus 6/poco f1 era phones tend to work well with mainline kernel:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Mainlining#Supported_SoCs

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1. jchw ◴[05 Apr 25 18:24 UTC] No.43595488[source]▶
As far as I know, the camera barely works on any device, including snapdragon 845 phones. Now I'm not saying the snapdragon 845 is unusable as a daily driver, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth, especially since the majority of what you run on a phone is browser engines, and web sites and web applications are not getting less demanding over time.