Running Mac on virtual machine through Win 7 - anyone done it successfully?

I just started taking a video editing course in college and I derped on realizing before hand that we're using Final Cut Pro, right after buying a Clevo P150 with 32GB of RAM and blah blah for video editing.
Soooo, now before things get too messy, I want to ask anyone here if they have had any personal success using Final Cut running Mac OS with VMware on their Win7 notebook.

I'd really love to get it working and I'd really love not to dual boot as my Win7 is running absolutely perfectly as it is. I have seen the tutorials online but none involve final cut and there's really no feedback either.

 

(I'm assuming here that FInal Cut Pro requires a dedicated GPU for processing video, etc.)

I've seen it done before, but i recommend against it. It seems like FCP will be quite resource intensive, and a virtual Mac OS machine, no matter how good the host hardware is, will still be slow compared to Mac OS running natively. Don't forget that even the (arguably) best virtual machine software such as VMware has limited video/graphic processing power, so this could be a problem. You might have a 7970 in your host machine, but you'll have a lot of trouble getting VMware to recognise it and use it in a virtual machine. See this blog post about testing out DA:O in a VM.

I would imagine that a Mac OS VM may be a bit slower due to some compatibility problems.

 

I tried running Mac OS X Snow Leopard inside a VM on Windows 7 - it works pretty well, but it's a pain to set up, graphics acceleration is not working and there are some compatibility issues. While it's great for developing and testing apps and websites in a native Mac OS X environment, I would not recommend using it for video editing - it will be very slow, if it'll work at all without crashing the VM...

 

Agreed. I probably shouldn't admit to it, but I also use a modified 10.5 and 10.7 in VM's for work, but only for testing. While they run smoothly with basic web/application testing, they are far from being "everday usage" smooth. This was with legitimate copies of 10.5 and 10.7 at workthat were modified for me by someone in the office (something to do with specialised klists, etc.).

I know that discussion on this topic isn't allowed, so I'll just end it with re-iterating that it's just not worth it for your purpose. You are better off just getting a Mac, or using equivalent software for Windows.

OT: woot, 666 posts!

 

hate to resurrect an old thread but hackintosh discussions are allowed and have been for a few months.

secondly FCP uses little GPU rendering unless your on a mac pro ( or hackintosh ) with a quadro card.

and third, it will work, I am actually not sure how 10.6.8 is vm'd on my elitebook 8740w but it runs FCP fine