In summary, here they are.Ģ) Register for Apple FREE Developer Account.Īll the 6 steps above (Step #1 to step #6) – including all download links, I have detailed and provided them here on this link. Some of the steps mentioned here you can skip them if you have done it before. Installing UTM on iOS – The Virtual Machine for iPhone Yes, all without jailbreaking.Īs of when this article is written, the latest Public Beta iOS available is iOS 13.5.4 – depends on when you read this, you may or may not use the same iOS version as me, but the steps provided here should be more or less the same.
So here I am going to summarize my findings so that you don’t need to go here and there, and give you a detail step by step guide to install and run a Virtual Machine on an iPhone (or other iOS device), running latest iOS. However, unlike normal apps, UTM so far is not available on the Apple App Store (mainly for reason stated above), so to get it up and running on your iPhone (or iOS device) require some efforts. After digging here and there, I found and managed to install it on my iPhone 7 Plus running latest iOS. Then I came across one posting in Reddit, telling there’s an active virtual machine development for iOS. On the latter, likely it’s because despite iPhone and iPad spec is getting better, matching the specs of a computer, the Apple A-series chip (Eg: Apple A13 found on iPhone 11 Pro) is lacking hardware virtualization.
There were no Samsung DeX like application for iOS and so far there was no virtual machine app on the App Store. There are however, apps for doing remote desktop (such as Microsoft Remote Desktop, TeamViewer) but they need the host computer to be turned on and required either a network connection (Eg: WiFi) or internet connection to work. Until recently, there’s no viable solution for running desktop application (be it Mac OS, Windows or Linux application) directly from your iPhone.
IPhone, iPad and iPod Touch can now run Windows, Mac OS, Linux directly.