Nivethika,
Starting with the most recent (Preview) Hortonworks 2.3 Sandbox VM and after installing the Accumulo module we have a script that will mostly automate the installation and configuration of GeoWave and associated components on a single VM. If you'd just like to see a working example of some ingested data being served out using GeoWave and the GeoServer plugin you might find it useful. Given the recommended 8 or 9 GB of RAM I was able to see all the consoles (Ambari, Accumulo and GeoServer) and view some ingested shapefile data over an OpenLayers map.
I tried coming up with a similar script for the Cloudera Quickstart VM but found that the default settings have so many things installed that despite turning off all but the needed services it seemed it was paging to disk despite several rounds of memory increases. For now if you'd just like to see a completely configured service with a bit of data I'd recommend the HDP 2.3 VM and the helper script.
In answer to your previous question about hardware recommendations any of these single node or several small development VMs are only going to be useful for development and really small tests. You'll start to see the performance benefits of the distributed data store and horizontal scalability at the point you've hit somewhere around 5 nodes.
Andy