May 17 2009
Create iPhone-apps with a Mac OS X VMware Machine
Normally you need an Apple Mac with the Leopard Operating System to program iPhone applications, but it is possible to do this with a Windows or Linux PC. All you need is to install Mac OS X 10.5.x in a Virtual Machine (i used VMware) and install there the iPhone SDK
iPhone SDK
You need at least 2 GB RAM and 30 GB HDD for the Virtual Machine. The Host-CPU should be a Dual Core with 2 GHz or OS X would run very slowly.
The following screenshots are taken from my Sony Notebook with Windows Vista (1600×900 Resolution), where i programmed my first iPhone app, a NetBeans RSS Feed Reader.
VMware Settings
Launching Mac OS X
VMware running in Fullscreen (1440x900)
Safari Browser
Launching XCode 3.1
The Interface Builder for iPhone apps
Opened XCode Project 'NetBeans RSS Reader'
iPhone Simulator with running app
did you try to install iPhone SDK 3.0? Looks like you can not anymore submit to iPhone App Store unless you tested on 3.0. I read that you need OS X 10.5.6 for SDK 3.0.
Another question, how is speed of your OS X? Mine (10.5.5 on vmware workstation 6.5.1) is so slow that I did not even try to install SDK.
No i don’t tried to install SDK 3.0. I am still using 2.2.1 and you can submit apps without testing to 3.0 . The speed is little slower than on a real Mac, you have to turn off all visual effects and deactivate as much Windows processes as you can. The VM eats much CPU-power and RAM.
hi, where can i to download the vm image? is Xelabo Image?
or another?
thanks.
Can you upload by rapidshare or another file server your image with the SDK? because i can run the sdk in my image.
@McDenis
It is a modified Xelabo Image. Sorry no chance to upload this.
i have the Xelabo’s image but dont run Xcode 3.
you can create a torrent and seed it without upload it.
what you think?
what is your kind of cpu 32 or 64 bits?
# MB of memory (real)?
another config.
Hey, that’s just great! You finally manged to run xcode 3.1.
Does xelabo’s image update normally to 10.5.7?
In what way did you modify the original image to achieve it?
I am using a Vista Ultimate sp2 64bit on a Intel Core 2 Duo T9550 2,66GHz with 4GB RAM. I have no problems using OS 2.2.1 and upgraded last week to OS 3.0 . This was hard stuff, had much errors but found some solutions in the http://www.
I’m just getting into all this, is there any way you can post links to not only the VM but also the dev tools?
Much appreciated.
-jm
Looking for Mac OS 10.5.7 VMWare Image to be able to install SDK 3.0. I have a 10.5.5 working machine but when I update to 10.5.7 using apple update I got an error when rebooting.
Any can upload
Hey Siegfried Bolz,
Even i want to use mac on my pc but when i load virtual machine through vmware i get boot1 error. Any help would be appreciated.
I have gotten the latest SDK (3.0) to work on Mac OS 10.5.x without needing to upgrade to 10.5.7.
I have written up instructinons here.
http://codedsignals.blogspot.com/
I am looking to install mac OSX 10.5 on my VAIO so i can develop an iPhone application for my uni dissertation project and Iam struggling to get it off the ground. Is there a walkthrough for getting it to run anywhere? any help would be much appreciated, cheers
I have a Mac OS 10.5.7 VMWare Image, editing the SystemInfo.plist to 10.5.7, installed iPhone SDK (incl xcode) 3.1. But if I want start xcode now, it crashes.
Does anyone now why?
you can see this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boxo-u_IlB0
regards
Thank you …u don’t know how long I’ve been looking for this !!
One more thing…..can this work with AMD Processors because i read on develop.apple that you must have an intel based CPU.
Hello
There happens to my tb the same as to halunke, you can raise please your image with the sdk of Iphone running, since it gives us problems to the moment to install it, he would be grateful for it to you
greetings
xdios
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For a new and improved way of booting any Mac OS X guest in any VMware product on any Intel-based physical machine, see http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=220750 .
Hi Guys
I am having one doubt using VMWare Server.
I have developed applications using VMWare Server. Can i submit these applications to App Store? Is there any chance to apple that it can find the application is developed in VMWare Server and apple will reject this applications?
Can any one please tell me?
@Balaji R, the answer is no. Mac OS X runs in a virtualized environment, and as long as you sign your code with an Apple certificate, they have no way of knowing that you created it on a virtual machine.
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the thing that i was trying to know is…:: is it possible to run the vmware image of mac os x on sony laptops (duh, stupid question !!) ?? Because, afaik, to do so you need to have hardware virtualization support which sony notebooks dont have. Am i missing a point ? I have a sony vaio. Was really wishing to get to run mac os on vm !
any help ?
thanks
- Here’s an idea. Rhohub is the fastest and best solution for creating iPhone apps on Windows - http://rhohub.com All you need to do is set up a free account and you can start building native apps online for all smartphones without the hassle of installing all the SDKs locally. Try it out and see for yourself.
Dragonfiresdk.com has also been a breeze for me. I got my first app in the App Store within weeks.