If I have a MacBook Air, can I install a Mountain Lion VM on my PC?

I have recently purchased a MacBook Air with Mountain Lion installed on it. I would like to do some development back and forth from PC to Mac, and in some cases, it would be very convenient to do some work on my PC instead. Is it legal to install a Mountain Lion VM on my PC? If so, how can I do it using the Mountain Lion installed on my Mac?
Replies are greatly appreciated.

You can't install OS X Mountain Lion on a PC because Apple doesn't allow it. Also, you can't install it in a virtual machine in a PC because virtual machine apps for Windows doesn't support this.
However, you can run Mountain Lion on a virtual machine in your MacBook Air if you want. Parallels and VMware Fusion allows you to use Recovery HD in order to install Mountain Lion on a virtual machine, so you should consider the option

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