iOS (almost) on the Motorola Xoom

The iOS Operating System trying to load on the new Motorola Xoom tablet. This is done by chroot on my rooted Xoom. The best way to explain how it works is to compare chroot to a Virtual Machine… A chroot jail makes the file system think that a folder is a separate disk, and I then use that to boot the OS. You can see my Ubuntu on the Motorola Xoom video to see a working chroot install. In the video iOS begins to boot but fails when it tries to load Springboard (The homescreen of iOS) which crashes the chroot jail system. I am currently trying to fix this and have Saurik’s Veency VNC server run at startup so you can access the iOS GUI. Thanks for watching!



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7 Responses to “iOS (almost) on the Motorola Xoom”

  • ceo4eva says:

    Cool

  • MinDControlDx says:

    Lol. April fools joke?

  • WotTehPhok says:

    Wow, someone is already working on it. That’s awesome. :D I hope you get the fruits of your labor.

  • artwel123 says:

    haha you’re the kinda guy that should go work for msft

  • alonsog1997 says:

    It would be nice if there were a generic hacked iPhone OS that could run on any Android device after installing just one app.

  • ApemanGate says:

    @mooosa34mm Yea… still working on fixing it. Whats the cool part about chroot installs of OS’s is that you can still use Android at the same time, similar to a Virtual Machine on a desktop/laptop.
    If I can find a faster/better way of transferring the “video” from the other OS install, I could possibly make a shortcut in the app drawer or your homescreen start up the VM, start up an application, and then start up the VNC client and connect so it would be displaying the input of that app.

  • mooosa34mm says:

    Would be pretty cool to see this work right, but I’ll still be using honeycomb GUI even if it works =) but still cool

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