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by mrgalaxy 1474 days ago
There’s literally only one feature on the iPad I want: virtualization. Can it do that yet?
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floatboth 1474 days ago
No, not yet (not without jailbreak, at least). https://worthdoingbadly.com/hv/ mentions that M1 iPads "already have Hypervisor support unlocked in the kernel" so they might be planning something for someday…
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makeitdouble 1474 days ago
Not until they're forced to by court order.

Remember, even arbitrary code execution is officially not allowed yet (yes there are exceptions)

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cokeandpepsi 1474 days 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
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rmorey 1474 days ago
yes, actually: https://getutm.app
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minimaxir 1474 days 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.

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teruakohatu 1474 days ago
That is emulation, using I would guess qemu. The ipad hardware is capable of full hardware virtualization.
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Sirened 1474 days 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
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