This has prolly been asked a million times but I can't see it anywhere, can or will OS X Intel build be run on Parallels for Windows, and if not, why not and when will we be able to ;-) Cheer' bo'
Has indeed been asked before. see: Can you install OS X into a Parallels VM? Simple answer: No. Apple doesn't allow it.
I'd suggest checking out some of the OS X/x86-related sites if you're interested in the various hobbyist workarounds. I doubt that Parallels will permit much discussion here on violating Apple's licensing agreements. Seriously, though. It's not for the faint of heart, anyway, and will only result in a partial OS X experience, at best. Perhaps that's why Apple's so set against it.
I think that's the one thing that ain't never gonna happen. Letting people "audition" OS X on a Windows machine does not help Apple much - first half hour with ANY new operating system is always frustrating even if its not running in flakey hack mode, so it might not tempt people to switch. I don't think anybody missed this much back when OSX only ran on PPC anyway... I hope Apple will find a way of letting OSX run in a VM - or Mac developers and web designers will start asking why they need that roomful of old macs (especially as PPC becomes obsolete) for testing when their PC chums can have Win95-Vista inclusuve running simultaneously on one machine - but I expect that would depend on Apple working with Parallels/VMWare to ensure that it could only happen on a Mac host. This also means that Parallels/VMWare need an incentive to be pro-active about it - currently Windows-on-Mac is the potential cash cow - the Mac world doesn't have the hoardes of corporate developers that support (Parallels|VMWare) Workstation on PC.
