Thread by @zhuowei

I wanted to play with macOS 12 Virtualization.framework's IPSW parser without M1 Mac.
So, I:
- used my "run macOS command line app on iPhone" project (github.com/zhuowei/iOS-ru…)
- dumped the XPC call (gist.github.com/zhuowei/5c75a0…)
- called XPC service on Intel (github.com/zhuowei/macOS-…)

Result: Virtualization.framework's loadRestoreImageFromURL method actually just reads the BuildManifest.plist and returns it over XPC. gist.github.com/zhuowei/14069e…

Me, using my previous silly project to build my new silly project:

VZMacOSConfiguration for an unsupported iOS IPSW:
buildVersion 18A8395 mostFeaturefulSupportedConfiguration (null) (hardwareModel (null), minimumSupportedCPUCount 0, minimumSupportedMemorySize 0) operatingSystemVersion 14:1:0 url nice -- file:///private/var/root/

The macOS 12 b1 BuildManifest also returns no configuration!
buildVersion 21A5248p mostFeaturefulSupportedConfiguration (null) (hardwareModel (null), minimumSupportedCPUCount 0, minimumSupportedMemorySize 0) operatingSystemVersion 12:0:0 url nice -- file:///private/var/root/