OSX 10.4.8 on VMWare, my attempt

After getting sick and tired of coding on a laptop hot like a stove, I decided to try and see if I can run OSX 10.4.8 (mainly for XCode) on my Quad Core PC running Windows XP. I followed the procedures layout in this web site with the following a few additional steps. Notice that I am using VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 Build 50824:

• I removed the floppy drive from the VMWare configuration because I don't have it.
• I pressed [F2] right when the VM bootup, and then change the boot sequence to boot the optical drive first, and then the harddisk.
• I need to a whole harddisk dedicated for the OSX. But because of VMWare's limitation, I only got to use 128Gb or my 160Gb harddisk .... well ....
• I need to use the VMWare to repartition to harddisk again even thought it was partitioned by another OSX installation before.

After a few attempts, I finally got the VMWare running. It was a long process, for each failure take about 2 hours. And actually I am starting to doubt if it's worthy, for neither the iPhone SDK nor the XCode 3 works with OSX 10.4.8. In fact I am now downloading XCode 2.5 just so that I can justify keeping this OSX around.

Plus no proper VMWare tools means the performance is slow like hell. So .... you know what maybe I'll just dump this whole damn thing.