https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/QuickStart-VM-requires-8-GB-of-RAM-My-Laptop-has-8GB-RAM-in/m-p/50947#M35490 <P>Welcome to the community&nbsp;<a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/20764">@HPathak</a>. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the quickstart VM only requires 4GB+ of RAM allocated to the VM if you are chosing the CDH5 option. The bad news is that if you want to use Cloudera Manager (Cloudera Express option and above) you will need to allocate 8GB+ or RAM to the VM.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screen Shot 2016-04-20 at 2.47.24 PM.png" style="width: 536px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1692iB58FD6D54B2E56F9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screen Shot 2016-04-20 at 2.47.24 PM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016-04-20 at 2.47.24 PM.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>This requirement goes back as far as I can recall so if there is an older version requiring less RAM I don't think it would be suitable to your evaluation.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I hope this helps.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:51:22 GMT cjervis 2017-02-15T13:51:22Z