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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: 0.001s | 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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1. saagarjha ◴[05 Apr 25 20:55 UTC] No.43596751[source]▶
If it’s just for fun, sure. However in practice this would be incredibly inefficient and not a usable device by any means, plus it would be a tremendous amount of work.