title: spark and cloudera vm
body: <p>Can anyone tell me what would be the best way to practice Spark ? I could see majority of them pointing to install Cloudera VM. I find it pretty hard to work on it as my system has only 6GB of RAM. The process are pretty slow and annoying to me. Cloudera Manger never launches and I believe its because it needs 8GB of RAM. As of now I have given 3 GB to my windows OS and 3GB to my VM. Is there way to speed up the process ? or can I install CDH in Ubuntu and then use spark ? (I have an Ubuntu installation in my machine so that I can allocate the complete 6GB for linux). Or should I be buying a new machine which has  8/16GB RAM ?  </p>
  
  <p>Processor : i5 560M
  RAM: 6GB (5.6 Usable)
  VM: VMPlayer (VMware)</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone let me know what would a good configuration as well ? </p>