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Can I run a Windows 2008 virtual server with only 512 MB RAM?

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Mar 15, 20261487 views
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I've seen adverts for Hyper-V based virtualised servers, with as little as 512MB RAM. This seems quite small to me, but I'm wondering if anyone has experience of running a virtual server with this amount? Can windows really run efficiently with these specs?

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Can windows really run efficiently with these specs? No, but it will run acceptably with only a handful of services, and under low load. The biggest performance bottleneck will be the operating system paging between disk and such a limited amount of…

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