James Stringer
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Run Windows 11 ARM64 guests on macOS over QEMU+HVF, with an ivshmem shared-memory transport carrying every guest channel (agent control, display/VDD, input, audio, clipboard, SSH, 9P) - no guest networking required. - tools/transport: one guest transport API, two backends (PC AF_HYPERV, Mac ivshmem); SPSC ring with an acquire-barrier fix for SSH integrity - tools/ivshmem: our own KMDF ivshmem BAR-mapping driver (no third party) - src/backend_mac: Mac-host ivshmem transport, QEMU VM lifecycle, IDD display consumer, agent/SSH proxies, ISO->disk patcher, Windows create - tools/agent + channel EXEs + tools/vdd: wired to asb_transport - tools/agent_win: staged guest payload (interim, pending JIT pull) - vendor/qemu-ivshmem: vendored QEMU 11.0.1 fork (ivshmem-plain) + LGPL source mirror for the self-contained app bundle - tools/sign/make-release.ps1: use the host-native ARM64 MSBuild so the WDK driver ApiValidator runs (the x86 validator fails on ARM64)
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Third-party software notices — bundled QEMU + dependencies
AppSandbox bundles the following third-party components under
AppSandbox.app/Contents/Resources/qemu/. Full license texts are in this folder.
Exact versions are recorded in ../dist/VERSIONS.txt.
QEMU — GPL-2.0 (GPL-2.0.txt)
The hardware/firmware virtualizer. We ship a patched build (ivshmem-plain on
macOS/HVF). Corresponding source: our fork
https://github.com/jamesstringer90/asb-qemu, branch asb-ivshmem-11.0.1
(= upstream tag v11.0.1 + 3 ivshmem commits). QEMU runs as a separate process,
so it is aggregated with — not linked into — the AppSandbox application.
GLib — libglib / libgobject / libgio / libgmodule — LGPL-2.1 (LGPL-2.1.txt)
QEMU's core dependency. We ship Homebrew's precompiled GLib 2.88.1 binaries,
dynamically linked. Corresponding source: the upstream tarball plus the one
patch Homebrew applies, both in ../source-mirror/
(glib-2.88.1.tar.xz + glib-2.88.1-homebrew-hardcoded-paths.diff; the exact
build recipe is glib.homebrew-formula.rb). Because GLib is dynamically linked,
you may replace the .dylibs with a modified GLib (LGPL §6 satisfied). Also
offered per ../WRITTEN_OFFER.txt.
gettext (libintl) — libintl.8.dylib — LGPL-2.1 (LGPL-2.1.txt)
GLib's i18n runtime. We ship Homebrew's precompiled gettext 1.0 libintl.8.dylib,
dynamically linked. We bundle only the LGPL runtime library (libintl), NOT the
GPL gettext tools (msgfmt etc.). Corresponding source: ../source-mirror/gettext-1.0.tar.gz
(vanilla upstream, no Homebrew patch). Dynamically linked, so replaceable. Offered per
../WRITTEN_OFFER.txt.
PCRE2 — BSD ("PCRE2 Licence") (pcre2-LICENCE.txt)
A GLib dependency. Copyright (c) 1997-2024 University of Cambridge. Permissive; notice only, no source obligation.
EDK2 / TianoCore firmware — BSD-2-Clause-Patent (EDK2-licenses.txt)
The guest UEFI firmware (edk2-*.fd). Permissive; notice only.
None of these licenses are overridden by the AppSandbox EULA. All bundled dylibs in
dist/lib are dynamically linked (LGPL §6 relink clause satisfied), and the exact
versions shipped are recorded in ../dist/VERSIONS.txt.