Run Windows Phone 10 Emulator on iMac (VMWare or Parallels or VirtualBox?)

[Ryanzzff]

Hi all, I am new here.
I need to develop Windows Phone 10/ Windows 10/ iOS Apps.
And I am planning to get a Late 2015 iMac 27" (16GB ram/ 2TB Fusion Drive).

Here are my questions:
- Can I actually run the Windows Phone 10 Emulator with Visual Studio?
- Which one perform better(VMWare or Parallels or VirtualBox) for my purpose?
- I am not sure if i5 is enough? or I have to upgrade to i7?

 

[Shirasaki]

Better keep caution with virtual enviroment. Simulator would eat machine performance quite a lot.
Boot camp would get the best performance. However, fusion drive. Oh yes. This drive is probably not conventional SSHD. You may need to take extra care on using BootCamp on a fusion drive.
Your best bet is downloading a Windows 10 enterprise trial, put it in VMWare or parallel desktop and install a trial visual studio to see if windows mobile 10 simulator can run on top of it. And you may need to find a way to run Windows using Apple own EFI to get a better boot performance and possibly Reduce the maintenance cost.
All are my two cents. I didn't even get in touch with fusion drive. So sorry.