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Is there anyway to install Apple iOS in VirtualBox? i have installed Android on VirtualBox with live Android and i have installed Snow leopard on VirtualBox but i don't know whether i could do the same with iOS if there is a way please let me know.(i am using both Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 as hosts)

Thanks !!

UPDATE : here i wanted to know whether there exists a project like Hackintosh for iOS

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VirtualBox is a virtualizer, not an emulator. (The name kinda gives it away.) I.e. it can only virtualize a CPU that is actually there, not emulate one that isn't. In particular, VirtualBox can only virtualize x86 and AMD64 CPUs. iOS only runs on ARM CPUs.

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    yeah.. so as Mac OS X. that is why people made hackintosh actually i wanted to know whether there is some kind of a project like Hackintosh for iOS.. anyway thanks for the reply :) – Keshan Nov 13 '10 at 10:27
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    Is there any way to actually run ARM operating systems on x86 hardware (using some kind of emulator?) – Anderson Green Dec 09 '12 at 03:28
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    Sure, you can use any of the available ARM emulators. QEmu is a rather popular one. – Jörg W Mittag Dec 09 '12 at 03:40
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Additional to the above - the QEMU website has good documentation about setting up an ARM based emulator: http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#ARM-System-emulator

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You could try qemu, which is what the Android emulator uses. I believe it actually emulates the ARM hardware.

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