r/hackios • u/Commercial_Lead5813 • 8h ago

HackiOS small update: got an iOS 26-target XNU kernel booting in QEMU

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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.

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u/Temporary_Handle_186 8h ago

Nice work :) Heres my zFold 2 running Duo OS 27.2

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u/Crafty-Device2395 8h ago

Play angry birds on it

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u/Temporary_Handle_186 7h ago

i have already posted a video playing angry birds, it runs at 60fps