Re: You're nuts
You can run VMs on systems with 1GB. It depends what you do with them and it's very much a pointless exercise comparing RAM requirements for VMs on everyday Windows devices. Like comparing how much petrol you use vs. someone else.
I run a full System Center lab in Hyper-V, and in the SCVMM VM I run nested VMs for build testing. My laptop has 128GB and my lab uses around 108GB when every VM is up. But none of that is relevant to anything anyone else does. That same laptop uses barely over 5GB under normal use with no VMs running.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
