But requires that you have Windows Pro as MS has "helpfully" set Windows Home and Windows basic to not allow Hyper-V to run on a core i7 unless you have the Pro

But requires that you have Windows Pro as MS has "helpfully" set Windows Home and Windows basic to not allow Hyper-V to run on a core i7 unless you have the Pro version. Which I sadly discovered when I bought a new high-end desktop and didn't realize (because very few specify) which version of Windows came with it. Of course I can load Ubuntu on the same machine and use Hypervisors all day long, but then we're back to Linux aren't we :-)