Meta ports Cuttlefish to run natively on macOS
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Meta has natively ported the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) virtual device framework Cuttlefish to macOS, allowing Apple silicon Macs to run this high-fidelity Android virtual device directly. Meta is releasing this work in two parts: qemu-wearables is a Meta-maintained QEMU branch containing its commits; cuttlefish-wearables is a set of patch files and instructions for patching Android/AOSP. Meta says it is exploring contributing these changes upstream to QEMU and AOSP, and until then developers can use its branch and patch set.
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- Meta EngineeringCuttlefish on Mac: Running Android’s Virtual Device Framework Natively on Apple Silicon
Meta describes porting AOSP's Cuttlefish virtual-device framework to run natively on Apple silicon Macs, reviving QEMU support and making vhost-user buildable on macOS, increasing QEMU's HVF memory-region tracking slots, and adding a native Cocoa display plus code-signing and notarization paths. The unified platform replaces the previous split between Goldfish and Cuttlefish, cutting maintenance and infrastructure overhead and letting developers and CI use the same high-fidelity virtual devices. Meta is releasing a QEMU fork (qemu-wearables) and Cuttlefish patch set (cuttlefish-wearables) and is exploring upstreaming the changes.
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