[josteink]

> I used OS X in VMware and Virtualbox (running Xcode) and the experience was awful. Mainly because 3D support is not available and OS X makes a heavy use of graphics acceleration.

For desktop use it's probably true, but you can enable SSH and log in to run build-jobs and test-runs with Xcode and friends just fine.

[wslh]

I can also cross compile for iOS in Linux... but the idea is obviously to use great tools not available in other platforms.