Core i7 4700MQ and Virtualization

[AARRGGHHH]

I'm trying to determine whether this processor supports vitalization (for the purpose of running another OS inside a VM). I saw a wiki that shows some older Intels, such as Pentium 4s, as supporting virtualzation, but it did not show that my Core i7 supports virtualization. It seems that the Core 17 should support it, since it's a newer, better processor.

Can anyone shed some light on this? Can a Core i7 be used to support running another OS inside a VM?

Thank you

 

[Kiril1512]

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡- NO!

http://ark.intel.com/products/75117/Intel-Core-i7-4700MQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz

 

[Kiril1512]

But if you just want to run it on virtualbox (for example) you will have no problemas in there...

I do it on my I7 4790K and in my Pentium T4200.

 

[AARRGGHHH]

I'm not sure I understand... if running VirtualBox is okay, what is not okay?

Thank you

 

[Kiril1512]

Nevermind, I just have not undestand your answer corectly...
You can run virtual machines on your laptop.

 

[RobCrezz]

Yea it will work fine, you can run Hyper-V, Esx, virtual box etc.

The cpu has:
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)

It doesnt have direct i/o but that doesnt matter too much.

 

[AARRGGHHH]

Yes VT-x is what was described in the article I read as the required technology, thank you. I want to run OS X on my PC inside VirtualBox. OS X is a nice operating system, and there is some interesting software with no Windows equivalents, but I'm not interested in paying Apple's obscene hardware prices.

Thank you Kiril1512 and RobCrezz.

If anyone has additional thoughts on the OS X | PC | VM issue, please comment.

Here's the article I'm reading at the moment: http://lifehacker.com/5938332/how-to-run-mac-os-x-on-any-windows-pc-using-virtualbox