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iPhone passthrough
Can someone explain, how can I get my iPhone passthrough to the qemu vm? Is it possible at all? Maybe a step by step guide?
I have been trying to do the same, with android is super easy, but with ios there is a problem at least in my current setup, I'm using ubuntu 18.10 and the problem I'm facing is that the camera and documents get mounted on my host machine and I can't unmount them to redirect the USB, I think is more of a problem of my host, not a problem of the guest mac vm
I struggled with udev conf for a while, trying to bypass something that looks to be an ios usb mux, and gave up :(
The solution I found is to dedicated an USB controller to the VM; I followed some blogs, can't find them anymore, but I've dumped my notes here
hope it can help!
note: you must hace a proc that allows io_mmu
I struggled with
udevconf for a while, trying to bypass something that looks to be anios usb mux, and gave up :(The solution I found is to dedicated an USB controller to the VM; I followed some blogs, can't find them anymore, but I've dumped my notes here
hope it can help!
note: you must hace a proc that allows
io_mmu
So I managed to do it, but macOS does not recognize anything? They show up in the usb section in system information, but not in the finder, mouse does not work, too.
make sure you don't dedicated a controller used by your host and qEMU
I detach it from the host and then attach it to QEMU.
The only way I've managed to get this working was adding a PCI-E USB card to my pc and passthrough it to the VM. I've been using this to develop apps for iOS without problems for about 2 years now. Obviosly, that requires a desktop instead a laptop.
Well well after a lot of tinkering I figured out a way to mount USB devices in QEMU (not virt(shit) manager). Its not just for 1 time use only. You can disconnect it, replug it and still access it. I tested it with 2 different USB drives.
As you can see in the screenshots, the USB drives show up. Still can’t get iPhone mounted though but at least USB drives mount easily now.
Well well after a lot of tinkering I figured out a way to mount USB devices in QEMU (not virt(shit) manager). Its not just for 1 time use only. You can disconnect it, replug it and still access it. I tested it with 2 different USB drives.
As you can see in the screenshots, the USB drives show up. Still can’t get iPhone mounted though but at least USB drives mount easily now.
Could you please document how you achieved it? :)
The only way I've managed to get this working was adding a PCI-E USB card to my pc and passthrough it to the VM. I've been using this to develop apps for iOS without problems for about 2 years now. Obviosly, that requires a desktop instead a laptop.
Just a quick update. I've just recently migrated to AMD (ryzen 5 3600 on an asrock b450m steel legend mobo). This mobo has a usb IOMMU group that is not shared with anything else. That makes possible to passthrough it, and it makes 4 of the usb on the motherboard available to the VM. In short, no need of usb pci-e cards :)
Well well after a lot of tinkering I figured out a way to mount USB devices in QEMU (not virt(shit) manager). Its not just for 1 time use only. You can disconnect it, replug it and still access it. I tested it with 2 different USB drives.
As you can see in the screenshots, the USB drives show up. Still can’t get iPhone mounted though but at least USB drives mount easily now.
How did you do this?
The only way I've managed to get this working was adding a PCI-E USB card to my pc and passthrough it to the VM. I've been using this to develop apps for iOS without problems for about 2 years now. Obviosly, that requires a desktop instead a laptop.
Just a quick update. I've just recently migrated to AMD (ryzen 5 3600 on an asrock b450m steel legend mobo). This mobo has a usb IOMMU group that is not shared with anything else. That makes possible to passthrough it, and it makes 4 of the usb on the motherboard available to the VM. In short, no need of usb pci-e cards :)
same here, lucky us
@SheenBR You would need to do a PCI passthough, you would need to make it so that the IOMMU group for the controller were not taken by the host deivce. Depending on which distro you are running and what kind of motherboard you have this will be more or less difficult if your mother board has poor iommu group mapping you would need to recompile your kernel with the ACS patch. Here is some information. They explain how to do it with a graphics card but it works the same for any PCI device. https://forum.level1techs.com/t/vfio-in-2019-fedora-workstation-general-guide-though-branch-draft/145106 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jlay/kernel-acspatch/
I edited the basic.sh file and appended this line:
-device usb-host,vendorid=0x<your-iphone-vendor-id>,productid=0x<your-iphone-product-id>,guest-reset=false \.
Here, the guest-reset=false is the argument that worked for me. I hope it works for others as well. Good luck.
Reference: stackoverflow answer
@fahimfarhan And that works fine? The iPhone works in xcode?
Yes. After connecting my iPhone, I opened a tutorial, made a sample app, and installed it on my iPhone. Here is a photo of my app.
@fahimfarhan And that works fine? The iPhone works in xcode?
Yes. After connecting my iPhone, I opened a tutorial, made a sample app, and installed it on my iPhone. Here is a photo of my app.)
It just freezes and crashes my vm. What version are you on?
@fahimfarhan And that works fine? The iPhone works in xcode?
Yes. After connecting my iPhone, I opened a tutorial, made a sample app, and installed it on my iPhone. Here is a photo of my app.)
It just freezes and crashes my vm. What version are you on?
@hockeymikey I am using kvm version 4.2.1 (Debian 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17), MacOS Catalina, and Xcode version 12.4. My host OS is linux mint 20.2.
(base) soumic@Zephyrus-G14:~/Desktop$ kvm --version
QEMU emulator version 4.2.1 (Debian 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17)
Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
(base) soumic@Zephyrus-G14:~/Desktop$ screenfetch
soumic@Zephyrus-G14
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmds+. OS: Linuxmint 20.2 uma
MMm----::-://////////////oymNMd+` Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.13.0-1009-oem
MMd /++ -sNMd: Uptime: 47m
MMNso/` dMM `.::-. .-::.` .hMN: Packages: 2841
ddddMMh dMM :hNMNMNhNMNMNh: `NMm Shell: bash 5.0.17
NMm dMM .NMN/-+MMM+-/NMN` dMM Resolution: 1920x1080
NMm dMM -MMm `MMM dMM. dMM DE: Cinnamon 5.0.5
NMm dMM -MMm `MMM dMM. dMM WM: Muffin
NMm dMM .mmd `mmm yMM. dMM WM Theme: Mint-Y (Mint-Y)
NMm dMM` ..` ... ydm. dMM GTK Theme: Mint-Y [GTK2/3]
hMM- +MMd/-------...-:sdds dMM Icon Theme: Paper
-NMm- :hNMNNNmdddddddddy/` dMM Font: Ubuntu 10
-dMNs-``-::::-------.`` dMM Disk: 208G / 529G (42%)
`/dMNmy+/:-------------:/yMMM CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS with Radeon Graphics @ 16x 3GHz
./ydNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q Design
\.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM RAM: 9776MiB / 31525MiB
(base) soumic@Zephyrus-G14:~/Desktop$
@hockeymikey I am using kvm version 4.2.1 (Debian 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17), MacOS Catalina, and Xcode version 12.4. My host OS is linux mint 20.2.
Probably a G14 then right? I'm using an Omen 15 so you're not passing through any controllers then, just the device. Can I see your startup script if you don't mind? Just wanna double check and rule everything out.
@hockeymikey Yes, a G14. Sure! This is my basic.sh script:
#!/bin/bash
OSK="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"
VMDIR=$PWD
OVMF=$VMDIR/firmware
#export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa
#QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-enable-kvm \
-m 20G \
-machine q35,accel=kvm \
-smp 16,cores=8 \
-cpu Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+sse3,+sse4.2,+aes,+xsave,+avx,+xsaveopt,+xsavec,+xgetbv1,+avx2,+bmi2,+smep,+bmi1,+fma,+movbe,+invtsc \
-device isa-applesmc,osk="$OSK" \
-smbios type=2 \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file="$OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd" \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file="$OVMF/OVMF_VARS-1024x768.fd" \
-vga qxl \
-device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-output \
-usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse \
-netdev user,id=net0 \
-device e1000-82545em,netdev=net0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:c9:18:27 \
-device ich9-ahci,id=sata \
-drive id=ESP,if=none,format=qcow2,file=ESP.qcow2 \
-device ide-hd,bus=sata.2,drive=ESP \
-drive id=InstallMedia,format=raw,if=none,file=BaseSystem.img \
-device ide-hd,bus=sata.3,drive=InstallMedia \
-drive id=SystemDisk,if=none,file=catalina.qcow2 \
-device ide-hd,bus=sata.4,drive=SystemDisk \
-device usb-host,vendorid=0x05ac,productid=0x12a8,guest-reset=false \
Here, the last line (-device usb-host,vendorid=0x05ac,productid=0x12a8,guest-reset=false \) is for the iPhone 8.
@fahimfarhan Strange... I have a similar basic.sh but no luck on my end
I still can't get this to work. My basic.sh is identical to @fahimfarhan 's and I've tried different ones such as using an ehci host defined. Tried every port on my laptop too. So what happens is that whenever I plug it into my laptop while the vm is running, it freezes up and the macos system crashes and reboots. If I start the vm with the device plugged in, it doesn't see it either but boots all the way up. The iphone reboots when it gets unplugged from the laptop.
I finally got passthrough working!!!! I used https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX#usbfluxd-iphone-usb---network-style-passthrough-osx-kvm-docker-osx to do it, works like a charm. Only issue I ran into is that as an Arch user I was compiling from git from the AUR for usbfluxd, usbmuxd, etc so on the MacOS vm I had to do the same compiling from git everything. It was alittle tricky getting the paths right and what not, but works like a charm now. Guest needs to be reachable by the host, I use virt-manager's NAT (which I could never get working in basic.sh), but can just have it bridged directly to whatever network you are on too.
@hockeymikey Yes, a G14. Sure! This is my basic.sh script:
#!/bin/bash OSK="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" VMDIR=$PWD OVMF=$VMDIR/firmware #export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa #QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa qemu-system-x86_64 \ -enable-kvm \ -m 20G \ -machine q35,accel=kvm \ -smp 16,cores=8 \ -cpu Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+sse3,+sse4.2,+aes,+xsave,+avx,+xsaveopt,+xsavec,+xgetbv1,+avx2,+bmi2,+smep,+bmi1,+fma,+movbe,+invtsc \ -device isa-applesmc,osk="$OSK" \ -smbios type=2 \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file="$OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd" \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file="$OVMF/OVMF_VARS-1024x768.fd" \ -vga qxl \ -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-output \ -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse \ -netdev user,id=net0 \ -device e1000-82545em,netdev=net0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:c9:18:27 \ -device ich9-ahci,id=sata \ -drive id=ESP,if=none,format=qcow2,file=ESP.qcow2 \ -device ide-hd,bus=sata.2,drive=ESP \ -drive id=InstallMedia,format=raw,if=none,file=BaseSystem.img \ -device ide-hd,bus=sata.3,drive=InstallMedia \ -drive id=SystemDisk,if=none,file=catalina.qcow2 \ -device ide-hd,bus=sata.4,drive=SystemDisk \ -device usb-host,vendorid=0x05ac,productid=0x12a8,guest-reset=false \Here, the last line (
-device usb-host,vendorid=0x05ac,productid=0x12a8,guest-reset=false \) is for the iPhone 8.
After messing with my vfio and kernel still got nothing done, I saw this thread. This works for me just fine! Thanks!
-device usb-host,vendorid=0x05ac,productid=0x12a8,guest-reset=false doesn't work for me either, verified with lsusb that those are correct. I wonder if usbmuxd could cause issues?
I finally got passthrough working!!!! I used https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX#usbfluxd-iphone-usb---network-style-passthrough-osx-kvm-docker-osx to do it, works like a charm. Only issue I ran into is that as an Arch user I was compiling from git from the AUR for usbfluxd, usbmuxd, etc so on the MacOS vm I had to do the same compiling from git everything. It was alittle tricky getting the paths right and what not, but works like a charm now. Guest needs to be reachable by the host, I use virt-manager's NAT (which I could never get working in basic.sh), but can just have it bridged directly to whatever network you are on too.
Wait so you just used the AUR version of usbfluxd? I've been trying that but my iPhone won't show up in iTunes or Finder. I even tried compiling usbfluxd and I keep getting configure: error: The file /libplist-2.0.a passed to --with-static-libplist does not exist. Any ideas?
@simmons2714 I think you can just pass through the usb port to the VM in Virt-Manager
@notAperson535 I've tried that and with iphones sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't.
@simmons2714 No idea. Try compiling them all. I think I use git versions for all of them from AUR.