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There’s literally only one feature on the iPad I want: virtualization. Can it do that yet?

• makeitdouble 4y ago
  Not until they're forced to by court order. Remember, even arbitrary code execution is officially not allowed yet (yes there are exceptions)
• rmorey 4y ago
  yes, actually: https://getutm.app https://getutm.app
  • minimaxir 4y ago
    > Does this require a jailbreak? > UTM is supported on iOS 11, 12, and 13 for non-jailbroken devices through sideloading. UTM requires a jailbreak to use on iOS 14.
  • teruakohatu 4y ago
    That is emulation, using I would guess qemu. The ipad hardware is capable of full hardware virtualization.
    • Sirened 4y ago
      fwiw, qemu is not always strictly emulation. On macOS, QEMU supports using Hypervisor.framework as a backend for fast same-arch system virtualization. This is also technically possible on M1 iOS devices (w/ forged entitlements) as you mentioned and someone actually did that recently
• floatboth 4y ago
  No, not yet (not without jailbreak, at least). https://worthdoingbadly.com/hv/ https://worthdoingbadly.com/hv/ mentions that M1 iPads "already have Hypervisor support unlocked in the kernel" so they might be planning something for someday…
• cokeandpepsi 4y ago
  Why is this being downvoted? with virtualization you could just run a linux distro or whatever and a lot of the complains in this thread would be resolved