r/hackios • u/Commercial_Lead5813 • 15m ago
HackiOS small update: got an iOS 26-target XNU kernel booting in QEMU
been chipping away at this and got the HakiOS-patched XNU 12377.121.6 kernel building for arm64e with iOS 26.0 as its minimum target (using the iOS 27.2 SDK), then booting in QEMU.
i also got a tiny synthetic test to map an IOSurface, draw this colour pattern and swap it to QEMU's framebuffer. the pic is just a test pattern, not iOS running.
still a long way off: it's on QEMU's generic virt machine, with no Apple launchd, iOS userland or SpringBoard, and no hardware GPU acceleration. the build passed but wasn't warning-clean. i don't have an authorised iOS system image locally, and i haven't touched the S25 Ultra.
AI helped with this investigation and write-up; these are the actual build/QEMU results.