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by daneel_w 359 days ago
It's a painfully sluggish alternative, but you can run older versions of OS X (and thus Xcode) in VirtualBox.
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On Apple x86 hardware: Running Windows in VMWare Fusion works very, very well. I can’t see a reason why that wouldn't also be the case for old versions of OS X, though admittedly I haven’t tried.

It’s curious to me that OS X in VirtualBox is sluggish. Both VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox use virtualization…

Software framebuffer. Remaining devices are also emulated.