Support::General SupportPost all topics here having to do with errors while trying to connect to an EQEMu server but not about the setup/running of the Server itself.
Try googling "vmware" and I am sure you will find your answer quickly. Basically it lets you run a virtual PC within windows and you can run any OS you want on it. I run a Linux server on my VMware, but I also have another VMware host with a Windows server on it for other stuff.
As for setting up mini-login, you just need to download the mini-login and read the readme file for instructions on how to set it up. Anything that isn't answered in there should be posted somewhere on the forums or in the wiki here, but most everything you need is in that readme.
You can set it to use as much memory as you want, but you will want to give it at the very least 256MBs of RAM. And yes, it could definitely affect the performance of your main server if you run them both on the same PC, but running 2 servers on the same box will always have the chance to affect each other no matter what. It all depends on how heavy the load is on your server from players and how good the stats are on your server.
If you plan to have a high traffic server, then I would strongly recommend that your test server be created on a completely separate PC.
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