# TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030

iPhone 11 emulated on QEMU

Repository: https://github.com/TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/qemu-t8030
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: emulator, ios, qemu, hypervisor
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-10-22T16:10:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2033, "days_push": 1411, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2207, forks 524 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:26.088972+00:00)

## What it is
A fork of QEMU that adds emulation of Apple's T8030 (A13 Bionic) chip, enabling iPhone 11 hardware to be emulated and iOS to boot in a virtual machine. It is a research-oriented emulator for studying iOS internals and security.

## Use cases
- boot iOS on an emulated iPhone 11
- research iOS kernel internals without physical devices
- analyze iOS firmware images in a controlled environment
- security research on Apple mobile hardware
- debug low-level ARM64 Apple boot chain

## When to choose
- you need to emulate iPhone 11 / A13 hardware for iOS research
- you want to boot and inspect iOS without a physical device
- you are doing security or reverse-engineering work on iOS

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose iOS emulator for running apps
- you want to emulate other iPhone models or newer Apple chips
- you need a stable, production-grade virtualization solution
- you require legal clarity, as the license is non-standard

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: simulation, developer-tools
- domain: operating-systems, developer-tools, hardware
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: qemu, ios-emulation, iphone, arm-emulation, reverse-engineering, security-research, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030 (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:26.088972+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:46:27.911243+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:26.088972+00:00, sha 6472a5048572)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.