In any case, even though Xcode might suspect that it's in an 'alien' environment, it hasn't shown a single sign of it so far and works totally O.K.)Īnd, as the time of enrolling into the Apple's developer program is approaching, I wonder do I really have to shrink the development budget by $1000-$1500 or so to purchase a physical Mac as Apple would expect me to do. (However, the names of nearly all the (virtual) devices of the virtual machine have a 'VMware' in them, which makes the VM not so real in the Apple's eyes if Xcode gathers and reports machine statistics during installation or app submission. iOS devices connect via USB to the virtual machine's iTunes and Xcode just fine, like it was a real Mac. I find working on projects being pretty efficient with the combined power of all the software installed on the two operating systems, which happily communicate through the VMware's shared folder. Things are very smooth and, unlike one would imagine, there's almost no sluggish behavior. Everything works just perfect, including the latest version of Xcode. I'm on Windows and I've got the latest version of OS X (10.7.4) running as a virtual machine on VMware Workstation.

No option as aplle mac os x in vmware