Alternately: How good are vmware and parallels at running Mac OS X VMs these days, and how well does Mac OS X 10.5 run in these VMs, and what kind of hardware do you need to get reasonable app performance? It doesn't actually matter to me if I run these applications on a darknet on PowerPC or on a darknet on a virtual machine on an Intel system.

I can reasonably expect to spend about $120 on a second hard disk and mounting kit for my 2.3GHz Sandy Bridge Mac mini which currently has 5GB of memory. Does VMware present a GPU to the OS X VM or would I be out of luck for apps that require GPU acceleration to display content such as iWork/iLife and presumably FCS?

I keep an XP system running on my work box using Hyper-V, but I can pretty reasonably dedicate only a half gig of ram to XP and that exists for the sole purpose of looking at XP and Office 2007 in case a caller has either XP or Office 2007 and something's radically different from 8/2013 or 7/2010.