I think you have to get an unlocker for VMware and Virtual Box. Good luck doing it though. I'd just get an Air and put Windows on it. Boot camped Macs are beyond awesome and you get to switch back and forth between operating systems.

What's the big deal about not having sound drivers before installation? I realize that you won't get speech during the installation, but once that's taken care of, everything works fine. Also, what's so bad about partitioning? I think it's better that way because it allows Windows to take advantage of the entirety of the Macs hardware.

  Going back to the question. It's pretty easy to run OSX in Vmware Player, but I'm not sure if the newer versions work. They probably do but the last version that I had experience running in Vmware was Mountain Lion, and it worked fairly well. It's slower, and you have to get used to the weird keyboard mapping since you'd be on a Windows machine, but it worked.

No audio drivers before installation? That really doesn't matter since you can't get speech to work in Windows until the operating system is set up. Micro$$$t need to get sound and narrator working during initial installation. Maybe it will come when I'm 40 rofl! In that case, I'll stick to OS X which is accessible out of the box and when I need to troubleshoot it.

Hi.
I realize this is devolving from the topic slightly but...

First off:
You can have perfectly working audio during installation. It's called, "Oh... Speakers don't work? Let's use the headphone jack".
You can have a windows install with speech by using a win PE disk image written to either a flash drive or DVD. (Don't ask me for these, there are a few floating around the net and this forum...)
As for no speech on the second part of the install, after the computer restarts, just win u for utilities, tab until you hear narrator, hit enter.
I've set up bootcamp on several macs this way, it works just fine (though, if you are going to be using a Win PE image you better go get a real win 8 / 8.1 / 10 iso from Microsoft, write it to a flash drive and plug that in during the bootcamp process... Then when the mac restarts switch the valid iso disk with the WinPE).
Now, back on the actual topic of this thread:
You might be having a slow time of it for a few reasons.
The first, and most obvious is that your computer just doesn't have enough oomph to run multiple operating systems (your host, as well as a simulated one). For this you need enough ram and processor speed.
I don't actually know how much ram my mac uses, I've got 16 GB in this macbook so it's never been a problem, but in general Apple is pretty smart about resources, at least in my experience.
You might also be having audio latency issues, which could make the mac just "feel" slower, because of the lagtime for audio output. There are articles on how to decrease this, so I won't go into it here.

Also, there is a huge community dedicated to the "hackintosh", which is basically a computer that runs OS X either in a VM or as the primary OS (I don't really know many specifics, some researching required on that one).

All that aside, if you are going to be using a mac in a professional environment (You need this for work / you depend on it / you aren't going to be as effective without it), if at all possible, just buy one. You can grab a mac mini for like... what... 400 dollars these days? (A mac mini is a small box with all the computing hardware packed inside that you just plug up to speakers and a monitor).
I use my macbook with OS X and windows daily and love it. I'm about to trippleboot some sort of Linux flavor, so I have access to windows 7, Mac OS X, and my favorite linux distro.

Hope that helps

It's intel, so I think it should work, Socheat. Intel core anything should work. Um, 3gb ram? The minimum mac out there is 4gb, and the 8gb runs like a champ, and under 4gb I would not recommend at all. Had experience with an old 2gb ram imac, didn't like it at all. At least what you should do is look into the hackintosh, so at least your system can take full advantage of the resources to run mac.

You ever heard of Brian Smart's windows installer? And, i don't like partitioning, because i would have to restart my mac just to use wiindows. That's why I use fusion, and @liverobo, do you have slype?

Oh really, but at least with  fusion I don]t have to restart just to use another OS. What if I wanter to use linux? Then what? Fusion FTW.

I personally use both, as there are times when a VM will simply not be fast enough for some tasks in Windows, I'm mostly thinking here of Windows mainstream games. My Mac has the hardware to play something like MK10 very well, but I would not want to attempt that on a virtual machine... Running skull girls inside  XP resulted in vmware almost freezing OS X itself, though a friend managed it on Windows 7. Still, it's good to have both. VmWare can actually boot into a  bootcamp partition as a VM, so you can make use of both very easily.

Anyway, because this is sort of off-topic in regards to the original question, I have ran mountain lion on an HP elite book before. You don't actually need a VmWare unlocker if your processor supports what's called hardware virtualisation, or VTX. Pretty much every I5 and I7 processor does as far as I know, though it may sometimes be deactivated in the bios by the manufacturer of the computer. This was the case on my HP, so I needed to get sighted help to turn it on. Running without VTX is possible if you run the aforementioned unlockers, but the VM will most likely be much slower than it would be with VtX on.
Anyway, even with that done the system was incredibly slow. Just navigating around was laggy, but doable. However many tasks would cause OS X to go busy, or the sound would start lagging even more and crackling and the entire VM would slow down. The test computer had a 2.5GHZ I5 that could boost up to 3.1 and 4GB of ram, with 2 for the VM. This definitely does not happen even on the lowest end macs - things do occasionally go busy if you hammer it, but the sound never crackles. The one thing I remember from this is that iLife 11 took about 2 hours to install on the VM because of the slowdown, while on a real system it took about 5-10 minutes.

So, as someone said before, it's much better to get a real Mac, which amusingly enough does a much better job of running Windows than a Windows computer does running OS X, whether it's running in fusion or bootcamped

I am running an AMD processor, and I installed the mountain lion vm. WHen I open the vmx file, it says I need a processor that supports AMDV. If this is in the bios, I'll turn it on and run a mac! I've got 8gb of ram, split it 4 to 4 and I'm good. My computer is perfectly capable of running two OS's, I've ran my host 8.1, along with xp, 10, and linux although that was vinux. Can you point me a link to the yosemitie vm and possibly the unlocker if my machine decides to be a jerk?

Did you try command+f5? On a windows keyboard, that is windows+f5. Ctrl is ctrl, option is alt, and command is windows. Unfortunatly, on newer systems, the audible volume feedback isn't enabled, so you can't use that as a test.

I've tried command+f5, yes I did windows+f5. Nothing happened. But for some reason when I boot the vm it says something about the guest operating system has disabled the CPU? What?

Gene, you quoted the comment about bootcamp not letting windows sound drivers be used until windows was installed. Based on what you said, you probably meant to quote something else. A quick note on that though, the solution to the no sound issue is to just, er, get a usb soundcard? It ain't that hard. If you wanna go dirt-cheep, the best you could do is a usb soundcard that has an audio-out and audio-in port, for around 8 bucks. One such line of those devices are the ones from c-media. But all that aside, Gene's right, it is technically a violation to run mac on anything except Apple Branded devices. The advantage is that this prveent custom bloatware-filled distributions, but the tradeoff is that you can't run a mac in a vm for testing, unless you have a mac. For example, running Lion on a mac running Yosemite is perfectly fine, but running that on on windows isn't. If you notice, even if you do manage to get it running, Apple licensed apps such as Facetime are not preinstalled. Even if you run a hackintosh using a legally bought mac osx installation disk or iso which is more legal than the former, it still isn't worth the time, let-alone easy. Let's just even ignore the legal aspect of things, it's not worth it however you do it. You could potentially make it work if you have a high-end system with at least 8gb of ram, but you'd still have a hard time setting it up. As has been said, it's just better to get a mac. You'll be a hell of a lot happier with one, I know I am and while I run windows xp alongside osx, I wouldn't even consider giving a windows machine the time of day anymore. I get that macs are expensive and at first glance, yes, you'd definitely want anything but that for testing your applications. But the mac mini is extremely affordable, often more affordable than most windows machines today, and if you have a keyboard and speakers, you're fine. You could even get by without a monitor, but I'm told that for some weird reason that makes voiceover lag. Nevertheless, the cheapest vga monitor out there should be fine. You'll have a much more pleasant experience testing your apps on a mac, and running windows on that same mac, rather than the other way around.