Running an Ipad interface on a Windows machine

[holden j caufield]

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.

 

[nickbits]

You can install xcode and the iOS simulator but it is very limited. Settings and safari are about all you can access.

 

[Kaido]

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.

 

[holden j caufield]

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.