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That's possible, true, but the company deemed it too expensive to supply everyone with two computers and then pay for VS licenses on the top of Xamarin licensing (already rather pricey)

As a former manager IT KILLS ME. We spend millions on salaries but we can't spend thousands on hardware? A $700 mac mini is less then a week of salary. Heck the license fees are more then a mac mini.

This same thing works for OS X running on VMware on a Windows host. While it's not officially supported, it works and is pretty simple to get up and running.

That's for people who don't usually use Macs. Parent is in the opposite situation.

I run a Mac VM using hackintosh on my windows box!

VS + MacVM = how iOS dev should be ;)

Is it difficult to set up?

The VM or Visual Studio?

The VM? A coworker had no problems installing OS X in VMWare for his pet project, less than a day.

Visual Studio? This is Microsoft that we're talking about. I haven't done this or seen anyone do it, but I've read articles and it seems as though it has the usual straightforward qualities.