vphone 2.5.0

Core Bundle

• Guest audio on iPad and iPhone guests. (#555)
  • Sound from the guest plays on the Mac. A CoreAudio plugin for the guest's virtio sound device, VPhoneVirtIOSound.driver, is installed by system-virtiosound-cfw-hal_plugin, and VirtualAudio patches keep its routes up on a device with no codec.
  • The guest's volume and mute change what the Mac plays, including from Control Center on iOS 27.
  • Apps in the guest record from the Mac's microphone. Voice Memos records on iPadOS 26.6.2 and iOS 27.0. The Mac's microphone is open only while the guest records.
  • Tones play: the haptics node is removed from every guest's device tree, since a VM has no actuator.
  • An existing machine gets the audio patches with cfw update-environment, one boot and one restart.
• A guest player's sound stays with its picture when the Mac plays through AirPods or other Bluetooth output. vphone-vm sends the Mac's output latency to the guest, and the guest reports the latency the host actually queues. (#564)
• The standard preset lets daemons and command-line tools on a 26.x or 18.x guest open the paravirtual GPU, video decoder, Neural Engine and IOSurface scaler. The patch is renamed kernel-exp-paravirt_user_clients → kernel-cfw-paravirt_user_clients; remove the old name from a machine's PatchSelection.plist if you enabled it in 2.4.2. (#562)
• cameracaptured no longer crash-loops at boot on a 26.x guest, which froze SpringBoard when an app started recording. It hit a bug in the paravirtual Metal driver while prewarming shaders, and libvcamcaptured now skips that prewarm. (#565)
• vphone-cli vm leases lists the shared network's DHCP leases and who owns each. --release-orphans (root) removes the expired leases of guest MACs no machine uses any more, which had pushed new guests' addresses towards the top of the range. (#563)
• The guest's vphoned updates itself the next time each machine starts.

Launchpad

• Each VM starts through vphone-launchpad-launcher in Launchpad's app bundle, so macOS asks for the microphone and location once, for Launchpad, instead of again for every VPhone.bundle build. (#561)
• Host Setup > NAT Network shows how many orphaned DHCP leases there are, with Release…. Also vphone-launchpad-cli vm leases [--release]. (#563)

Upgrading

Launchpad 2.5.0 needs VPhone.bundle 2.5.x. Download the notarized vphone-launchpad-2.5.0-notarized.zip, then install VPhone.bundle 2.5.0 from Core Bundle and move your machines to it with Change Core Bundle…. Launchpad 2.4.x does not work with this bundle. The vphone-launchpad-2.5.0.zip built by CI is unsigned.