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Top 4 Swift Qemu Projects
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Project mention: A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-13
This group’s approach of treating the devices as many weaker servers (basically a raspberry pi cluster) sounds like the most realistic way to reuse phone hardware at scale, especially with the backing of the actual hardware vendor.
It’s a genuine shame how locked down iPhones are compared to even Android. Hypothetically you could run Linux inside UTM[0] but outside the EU Apple makes it intentionally difficult, and there’s still memory restrictions and performance penalties.
My group’s senior year project was a computing cluster on phones (specifically targetting LLM inference) [1]. Instead of installing a new OS we built separate apps per OS. Our devices were older, so the Android phones had worse hardware and the iPhones had more software restraints.
[0] https://getutm.app/
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Swift Qemu related posts
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Your Phone Is an Entire Computer
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Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5
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People using iPad OS features on their iPhones
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Show HN: What to Do with an Old iPad
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QEMU 10.1.0
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Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime
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Coding Without a Laptop – Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Qemu projects in Swift? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | UTM | 34,345 |
| 2 | QEMU-Manager | 361 |
| 3 | UTM-Snapshot-Manager | 173 |
| 4 | Project-Mendacius | 114 |