Hypervisor + Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8200 ?

After getting some malware on my home PC, I am considering wiping it out and installing vSphere Hypervisor (and then buying a 32-bit copy of Windows Vista, because my CPU is 64-bit but won't support 64 bit guest OSes).  My CPU is an "Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8200".  Does anyone have reason think vSphere hypervisor won't run on it?  I don't see it in the list of supported chips, but I did see a couple of references to it in these forums.

The Intel page for the chips says "Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)" is not included, which worries me a bit, but I don't know enough to know whether that is critical or not.  I am successfully running VMPlayer (with Ubuntu 9).

Thanks,

       --Paul