Comment by walterbell

Baby steps :)

We know that recent (M2+) Apple Silicon has hardware support not only for virtualization, but nested virtualization. Time may improve Apple's risk/reward for enabling virtualization in specific iPad use cases.

Thanks to aShell and iSH emulators for pioneering Linux-alike experiences on iPads, at the cost of overheated silicon.

Thanks to Asahi for bare-metal Linux, including virtualization, on Apple Silicon.