Depending on what you're doing, you don't need any VMs for 8GB to feel small... When I have a couple of Visual Studio instances running, an instance or two of

Depending on what you're doing, you don't need any VMs for 8GB to feel small... When I have a couple of Visual Studio instances running, an instance or two of WinDbg, Firefox, IE, and RDC Manager with several connections open, I can start getting low memory warnings!