I run Simulators on it and have no issue. The CPU is an i5 which means compile times are a little longer but not a terrible deal. More importantly I have the same exact mac mini you have listed! It's a 2011/2012 Model. So, I have the exact same setup you're looking for. in some cases that's the only way to get it going again. soft solution is to restart visual studio which sometimes works. The most annoying thing about both options is sometimes visual studio just refused to talk to the build agent, even once you've already connected and have been building just fine for a while. they may have improved since last year by now though. animations are particularly choppy in the remoted simulator. Of the two, i find option 2 to perform worse and be less reliable. under the covers it's still doing some sort of remote desktop. My understanding is that the way xamarin implemented option 2 is essentially option 1 but trimmed down to just the simulator program rather than the whole desktop. this will render the simulator as a program in windows. it's built into the OS and can be viewed remotely over any vnc viewer client.Ģ) enable the remoted simulator in the xamarin ios preferences.

You have two options for accessing the simulator from windows.ġ) use the screen sharing feature of macOS to remote desktop into the mac.

Iphone emulator on mac mini