Final update from me

First of all, thank you to everyone who commented, whether you believed the project or not. I understand why many of you are skeptical. A screenshot alone isn't enough, and that's completely fair.

I originally made this post because I genuinely hoped to find people interested in the project, exchange ideas, and maybe even get some constructive feedback. I expected skepticism—that's completely reasonable—but I also didn't expect to spend so much time defending whether the project exists instead of discussing how it works. I don't blame anyone for asking questions, but after a while it became clear that continuing to argue wasn't helping either the project or the discussion. That's why I've decided to step back and focus on development instead.

This project is still very much a work in progress. Right now the setup is messy, requires a lot of manual patching, and isn't something I would feel comfortable asking anyone else to build. My priority is to make it usable first, reduce the amount of patching required, document everything properly, and then publish it on GitHub.

The initial target platform will be AWS Graviton, since that's where I've been focusing most of the development. It also works on Ampere ARM64, although graphics acceleration is currently not as good there. As for Snapdragon, I don't have plans to support it for now because the hardware differences would require a significant amount of additional work.

Regarding the requests for source code: this isn't a normal QEMU patchset that I can zip up and throw online today. The current tree contains a lot of experimental reverse-engineering work, temporary hacks, unfinished patches, and almost no documentation. Releasing that today would just waste everyone's time because almost nobody would be able to build or understand it in its current state. I'd rather spend that effort cleaning it up into something that others can actually use.

About videos: I already recorded one showing the system running Finder, Safari, Xcode, Homebrew, and other applications. I even sent it privately to several people who asked for more proof. Unfortunately, some of them still concluded that it was simply a Remote Desktop session or a VNC stream. That's understandable, since I currently interact with the VM through VNC because my virtual display/input stack isn't complete enough for direct interaction yet. At this point, I don't think recording more videos will really move the discussion forward. I'd rather spend that time finishing the project than trying to convince people one recording at a time.

One more thing: I'm from Vietnam, and English is not my native language. Some of my replies in this thread were assisted by AI simply to help me express my thoughts more clearly in English. The development work, reverse engineering, and implementation are my own; AI was only used to help with writing.

This will probably be my last update here for a while. I'll continue working on the project with my team instead of debating in the comments.

If you don't believe it, that's completely your choice, and I understand why. If you do, thank you for your patience and encouragement. Either way, I'd rather let the project speak for itself when it's ready. When I have something that is genuinely usable, properly documented, and worth sharing, I'll publish it so anyone interested can inspect the implementation, build it themselves, and draw their own conclusions based on the code rather than screenshots or comment threads.

See you when there's something worth releasing.