<p>I’m thinking about trying some development for the iPhone, is it possible to install Leopard inside VMWare? I already have a pretty high spec PC with a comfy setup that I’d like to use, or do I need to buy a real Mac?</p>

[{'answer_id': 22609, 'author': 'Peter Meyer', 'author_id': 1875, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1875', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Legally, you need to buy a Mac.  It is "possible" to run (at least Tiger) in VMWare -- the experience is not optimal, but you can do it.  It\'s also possible to run OS X on PC hardware; however, it\'s an exercise in illegal software and hacks.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 22646, 'author': 'Herms', 'author_id': 1409, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1409', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Unfortunately, there\'s no legal way to run OS X in a virtual machine.</p>\n\n<p>For developing iPhone apps you probably don\'t need a particularly beefy machine, so maybe look into grabbing a <a href="http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini?mco=MTE3MTA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mac mini</a>?  They\'re the cheapest Macs you can get, and should probably be just fine for doing iPhone work.  Plus, now you have a mac that you can use for testing other things too!  :)</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 22654, 'author': 'jsight', 'author_id': 1432, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1432', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I've run OSX under VMWare, and I can tell you with confidence that it is not an environment that you would find comfortable for developing applications in.  It was barely (not really) usable for testing Mac specific browser bugs that couldn't be reproduced in Safari on Windows.</p>\n\n<p>On the other hand, if your hardware is supported by OSx86, you can run it natively at reasonable speeds, and I would expect it to make a fairly nice dev environment.</p>\n\n<p>For all cases, I'm going to assume that you have a legal OS X license, and don't mind the legal ambiguity of running it on hardware which the license explicitly forbids (the legality is unclear, imo, but I really think you'd be ok as long as its not a pirated copy).</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 22666, 'author': 'John Siracusa', 'author_id': 164, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/164', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>It is <a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/01/virtual-leopa-1.html" rel="noreferrer">legal</a> to run Mac OS X <strong>Server</strong> in a virtual machine <em>on Apple hardware</em>.  All other forms of Mac OS X virtualization are currently forbidden.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 9916901, 'author': 'tdelaney', 'author_id': 878766, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/878766', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can rent a virtual Mac with a service like www.MacinCloud.com. </p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 16071741, 'author': 'M.Y. Developers', 'author_id': 1848589, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1848589', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>We are in no way affiliated with any of the providers below.\nWe have tried many virtual cloud mac providers including:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Mac in Cloud </li>\n<li>virtualmacosx.com</li>\n<li>xcodeclub</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>By far the <strong>best support</strong> we got was from <strong>xcodeclub</strong>. Daniel (the owner) personally provisioned a trial virtual machine and allowed us to see if our programs ran before purchasing the service. Java 7 ended up not working on virtual Mac due to some graphics drivers issues but Daniel spent over an hour of his personal time helping us. Now that is how customer service should be like. <strong>We highly recommend his service</strong>.</p>\n'}]
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