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Running an Ipad interface on a Windows machine

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holden j caufield

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I have a thinkpad yoga and sony duo 11 both are windows machines that convert to a tablet. My wife's workplace is going to be getting ipads for the school. She would like to learn and get used to the GUI. I can get OSX running a PC via a virtual machine and I've done it with android. I'm wondering how or if anyone has used an Ipad virtual machine in a tablet PC? It doesn't need to work perfectly, she just needs to get used to the functionality.
 
You can install xcode and the iOS simulator but it is very limited. Settings and safari are about all you can access.
 
Currently to my knowledge, there are no iOS simulators available. Historically:

1. Windows could virtualize Windows via VMware (and PowerPC versions of OSX via PearPC)

2. Apple ported the Macs to Intel; you could now dual-boot a Mac (Windows/OSX) or run Windows in a virtual machine (Parallels/VMware/Virtual Box)

3. Hackintosh used Windows computers to natively boot OSX; using the same techniques, people were able to virtualize OSX on Windows using VMware etc.

4. Android was officially ported to x86 for manufacturers (ex. Dell Venue 8 7000-series Android tablets running on Intel processors); alternatives for end-users were created, such as Android-x86 & ConsoleOS (and virtualized versions like Andy)

5. iOS is closed-source & ARM-based; there are no real emulators for Windows or Linux - they are all just GUI emulators that don't actually run iOS. The best simulator is probably iPadian, but all they do is rig up some games & apps and pretend to be a real emulator, but it's not. The best you can do is jailbreak a compatible iPad, install VNC or some other type of remote desktop service, and connect remotely to it from the Windows machine. Closest thing you can do is get a Mac (or Hackintosh), download Xcode, and run an iOS simulator for developmental purposes: (iirc you have to have access to the source code to do so, i.e. compile & run, because it translates it for the Intel CPU instead of the ARM hardware foundation)

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/iOS_Simulator_Guide/

TL;DR - no, there are no real virtual machines for iOS.
 
ok thanks for the insight. I figured as much and only read the first page of goolge results for it. Now I have to try and pick up a used one, I think I'll avoid CL for ipads.
 
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