Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
Start of the journey
We started our journey with iOS emulation by looking at existing open-source solutions. We had successfully run alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64 before, but the project being read-only was concerning.
Then we tried TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030 and it had quite a few interesting features:
the ability to actually restore iOS (using a second "companion" QEMU for USB connectivity)
running iOS 14
a more recent version of QEMU
a nice wiki on how to bring up the emulator
With that projec...
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