I posted a detailed guide on my blog about how to create a Yosemite VM, feel free to check it out if you're interested. Graphics are still slow (and it's even worse in Yosemite) but besides the login screen which takes a good 5 seconds to render due to its transparency, everything else is pretty usable, and it's enough for occasional (hobby) iOS development until you get enough experience to make profitable apps in which case it's still better to buy a real Mac as this setup may break at any update. Legal disclaimer: Make sure to perform the following steps on a regularly purchased Apple computer, running a genuine OS X (host) operating. It could be me being unlucky, but I know for a fact that both machines were bespoke toasters whenever I did something that the CPU had to work even the tiniest bit for.
It's based on this pastebin which I found via Google, adjusted to work with Yosemite. Both files were created in Windows 10 and are untested because I only have two MacBooks and none of them work.
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An SSD is a must have though, a hard drive will be bloody slow (that's also true for a real Mac). The guide below tries to explains how to easily install Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 in a virtual machine using VirtualBox. In the end, with my solution I am able to successfully run Yosemite with 3,5GB of RAM (out of the 4GBs of my computer, and by tweaking the host system I could probably push it even more to 3,7GB), using the two cores of my CPU, with reliable USB pass through and no tweaking required (the emulated hardware is close enough to a real Mac that the OS boots directly without any kernel command line parameters or extra kexts). What you can do (and I have done it with much success) is use a lightweight Linux installation as a base for QEMU which is a Virtualbox alternative, with much more configuration options, including the ability to emulate the Apple SMC and its "OSK" string (you won't need shady "hackintosh" kexts) and it has reliable USB pass through (I successfully restored iOS devices and installed apps on them).
Virtualbox on Windows is definitely not suitable for this, as Windows itself is quite resource-hungry, Virtualbox lacks many configuration options and even if you can get it to work it's going to be quite unreliable, not to mention that you can't pass through USB devices. I succeeded in installing Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 from the install DVD (still being sold by Apple for 19.99) on Virtual Box 5.2.12 running on Mac OS X.
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