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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.
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  • 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. – Aurum Aquila Apr 14 '11 at 22:55
  • another link to use OpenGLES 2.0 emulator http://forums.arm.com/index.php?/topic/14923-can-we-support-virtual-framebuffer-on-opengles-emulator-20/ good idea to search in google "qemu support 3D acceleration" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=3d&submit=Search&idxname=qemu-devel – Shimon Doodkin Jul 14 '11 at 06:20

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there are libraries to emulate SGX

at http://www.imgtec.com/powervr/insider/powervr-utilities.asp

maybe they can be used to make a hardware module for qemu

also there is some development that was doing on the gpu in the mailing list

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-10/msg02073.html

https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/QemuOpenGLES

http://planet.linaro.org/tag/meego/

https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/QemuOpenGLES

http://planet.linaro.org/tag/meego/

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This is old, but still good question. I found new answer to it. Try qemu for iOS on github.

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QEMU does not emulate Apple A4/A5 architecture.

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