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by vczf 1089 days ago
Is anyone using UTM for programming on an iPad?[1] I was surprised to see in the demos that it appears to perform quite well, considering there's no hardware virtualization support.

[1]: https://getutm.app/

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This is the first I’ve heard of it. I’m curious if it’s loadable on the latest iPad Pro.
The web page seems to say that you have to jailbreak devices running iOS 14 or higher, which would presumably include the current iPad Pro models:

> If you are running iOS 14.0, 14.1, 14.4, or higher: UTM works if you are jailbroken or semi-tethered with Jitterbug, AltJIT, or Jitstreamer.

Presumably iOS 14 and later include security features that prevent you from running generated (JIT translated) code directly. I imagine that tethering to a development environment might allow translated code to be signed, or perhaps it supports code injection via the debugger interface.