Basically, only iOS, which is a genuine Apple OS, works on iPhone. However, enthusiasts have tried to boot various operating systems, such as running Windows XP and running Linux. A new movie has been released that makes the Linux distribution “Fedora” run crisply in “Virtual Machines Running on iOS” using the virtualization support function hidden in the SoC of iPhone. You can also check how the document creation application “LibreOffice” works in the movie.
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Software developer Zhuowei Zhang has successfully run Fedora on the iPhone. In the following movie, you can see how Fedora actually works on iPhone.
Fedora 36 VM in UTM.app with hardware acceleration – YouTube
Zhang’s device is an iPhone 12 with iOS 14.1 installed. The iPhone 12 has been jailbroken, and the screen shows the screen of the virtual machine “UTM” developed by open source.
If you select Fedora on the UTM screen …
The virtual machine has started.
About 15 seconds following the virtual machine started, the Fedora login screen was displayed.
When you enter the password with the touch keyboard …
The desktop is displayed.
Furthermore, if you start the terminal and execute the command “neofetch” that displays system information …
I got a screen showing that the distribution I’m running is Fedora.
Then display the menu screen and select LibreOffice.
Wait a few seconds …
LibreOffice has started and you can create documents.
According to Mr. Zhang, the SoC “A14 Bionic” installed in the iPhone 12 is equipped with a virtualization support function like the M1 chip. The virtualization support function is locked by iOS, but Mr. Zhang succeeded in making Fedora on the virtual machine run crisply by imitating the virtualization support function calling system of macOS and making the virtualization support function available.
When I ran the benchmark app “Geekbench 5” on the iPhone 12, I got a single core score of 1573 on iOS and a score of 1504 to 1511 on the virtual machine.
The virtualization support function seems to be working very well because the benchmark score on the virtual machine is close to the score on iOS and the crisp behavior in the movie, but according to Zhang, the memory used by the virtual machine If it exceeds 900MB, iOS will crash. As a result, Windows and Android failed to boot due to the lack of available memory, Zhang said.
“I’m not the only user who says,’If you can use the virtualization support function on the iPad, you will pay $ 10 a month,'” Zhang said, asking Apple to enable the virtualization support function on mobile devices. ..
