Hardware-accelerated Linux virtual machines on jailbroken iPhone 12 / iOS 14.1

Re:Hardware-accelerated Linux virtual machines on jailbroken... by Nextgrid on Monday June 06, 2022 @05:57AM (#31638669)

The key here is the hardware acceleration - the default UTM you can install out of the box doesn’t do that.

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Re:Hardware-accelerated Linux virtual machines on jailbroken... by easton on Monday June 06, 2022 @11:11AM (#31641504)

But I wonder if you could use the modified version the author posted with AltStore (or plain old Xcode signing) to get virtualization support on the M1 iPads which don't require kernel modifications. I'd pay $100 a year for a developer account if I knew I could run macOS and Linux at near native speed on my iPad.

Does anyone know if you can install apps that use private entitlements without a jailbreak if you compile/sign them yourself?

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Re:Hardware-accelerated Linux virtual machines on jailbroken... by NathHorrigan on Monday June 06, 2022 @01:31PM (#31643264)

I assume the performance improvements come from having JIT memory enabled? If so this needs to be done by starting the app in 'Debug' mode from XCode which loads a specific entitlement.

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Re:Hardware-accelerated Linux virtual machines on jailbroken... by umanghere on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:08AM (#31651186)

Unfortunately it can’t be done even if you target an M1 iPad — virtualization is locked behind an entitlement that’s not publicly available on iOS.

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