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Which PC Configuration to Use Hyper-V on a Testing Environment

Hello, i am working as a trainer at a company. I am also assigned to test systems on virtual environments. At my home environment i have a pc that has Q9300 cpu and 8 gb ddr2 ram and i am running Vmware without hassle.

However i wan to get familiar with Hyper-V as well, but my company lack of hardware for testing environments. Best workstation has only 2 GB Ram and it is a shame that we have only one server (an old IBM brand).

I'm going to convince my boss to purchase a PC or a server to test Hyper-V and other configurations. However i know that my boss won't purchase any server for now.

As a result we need to get started with a strong personal computer configuration.
What would you suggest?

Do you know (or use) a pc configuration that works cool with Hyper-V?

Also would you suggest using Hyper-V as a role inside Windows Server 2003 or another option?

Can you tell me example configurations that runs fine with Hyper-V and your virtual environment?

I appreciate your time and comments regarding this issue.
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as ashwin said, any PC with a Core2Duo with VT enabled and sufficient RAM, should be enough to give you a good hands on...
though a PC would definitely be not recommended for production use :-)

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Well, actually i had issues with a certain pc configuration during setup, because of that i am collecting your opinions, please continue sharing recommended and better pc configurations for testing purposes