How to install Apple iOS on qemu

Asked 14/4, 2011 at 22:39 Answered 1/12, 2016 at 17:38

Solved ios emulation qemu device-emulation

Qemu supports ARM (and many other platforms). So, what do I need (besides installation media) to install Apple iOS on qemu? Are there ways to create iOS image suitable for Qemu?

Update:

Apple A4 = Cortex-A8 + PowerVR SGX535
Apple A5 = Cortex-A9 MPCore + PowerVR SGX543MP2

Both Cortexes use ARM v7 instruction set which is supported by Qemu. The problem is that:

iOS doesn't support any of video-cards that can be emulated by Qemu
Qemu can't emulate PowerVR GPU.

Allegraallegretto answered 14/4, 2011 at 22:39 Comment(3)

I doubt it. I believe there are a whole lot of hardware interactions that the OS uses to confirm that it's on an Apple device. I think this is what makes Jailbreaking such a hassle. – Erinn 14/4, 2011 at 22:55

another link to use OpenGLES 2.0 emulator forums.arm.com/index.php?/topic/… good idea to search in google "qemu support 3D acceleration" lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/… – Larcener 14/7, 2011 at 6:20

I came here looking for the ability to directly emulate ios using qemu because it would be much preferable to the way I currently do it which is emulate BigSur using qemu and then run ios using xCode on BigSur. It is incredibly slow and cumbersome but it works on my Ryzen 7 lenovo running Arch Linux. – Disseisin 30/12, 2023 at 11:52