Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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.

Re: Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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Post by shit_stabber » Sat, Apr 05, 2025, 2:29 PM UTC

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?

Re: Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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Post by LorenDB » Sat, Apr 05, 2025, 2:48 PM UTC

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.

Re: Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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Post by nullpoint420 » Sat, Apr 05, 2025, 2:51 PM UTC

LorenDB wrote: post #7

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.

Kinda like paravirtualization? That sounds like a fun project!

Re: Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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Post by exitnode » Sat, Apr 05, 2025, 2:52 PM UTC

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

Re: Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 05, 2025, 2:54 PM UTC

exitnode wrote: post #9

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

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