How to install Apple iOS on qemu

ios emulation qemu device-emulation
Alex Bolotov picture Alex Bolotov · Apr 15, 2011 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

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.

Answer

Shimon Doodkin picture Shimon Doodkin · Jul 14, 2011

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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