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Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework (github.com)
root9876 43 minutes ago [-]
> during iOS setup, don't pick Japan or the EU as your region (extra regulatory checks the VM can't satisfy)

I'm curious what are these checks

rootnod3 14 minutes ago [-]
For Japan it might be the Felica chip.
hamandcheese 25 minutes ago [-]
This seams neat, but I'm not sure I understand the purpose/difference between this and using the iOS simulator.
restes 20 minutes ago [-]
The iOS Simulator consists of (some of) the userspace components of iOS compiled to run on macOS. This would be a full iPhone image running as-is via virtualization.
TylerJaacks 1 hours ago [-]
This project is really cool its a shame you have to disable or partial disable SIP which can break some things.
ironqcold 2 hours ago [-]
Interesting project. If it actually works it opens up a ton of possibilities for testing and reverse engineering.
boredatoms 2 hours ago [-]
Is this what apple does in xcode?
vlovich123 2 hours ago [-]
If you’re talking about the simulator, no. That doesn’t virtualize - it literally just runs it locally on your machine. Less RAM overhead and CPU since it uses your normal instruction set and doesn’t run a separate kernel and userspace.
valleyer 1 hours ago [-]
At least historically, it actually did run its own entire userspace, including daemons (all the way to launchd, IIRC), etc. All compiled for Intel, back in the day. Shared the kernel though.

Many of the nominally shared system pieces between Mac and iPhone (like Foundation) actually had many subtle compile-time differences.

theflyestpilot 46 minutes ago [-]
so can this receive web push notifications?
chews 47 minutes ago [-]
What a release! Congrats to the builder, lots of great work done here and in IOS profiling in general has been done here recently. Corellium went research only and I lost the ability to actually profile my applications the way I'd like. I've got a fun thing over coffee in the morning!
krackers 6 minutes ago [-]
Feels weird that after their attempts to shut down corellium they themselves shipped the necessary bits to allow this

https://github.com/wh1te4ever/super-tart-vphone-writeup

orangea 2 hours ago [-]
what is "PCC"?
busymom0 2 hours ago [-]
Private cloud compute I think. I learnt about it today too from this reddit post which mentions how:

> At WWDC, Apple announced that starting in the 27.x versions of iOS, macOS, etc., devs would be able to call Private Cloud Compute directly from Swift with no additional API configuration. Presently, the only way to get free cloud inference is by joining the App Store Small Business Program.

https://www.reddit.com/r/appledevelopers/comments/1vztibh/re...

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