Hyper-V - How do I know I have the right hardwares for virtualization?

You can read about intel-virtualization here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization

The processor:
"Not all recent Intel processors support VT-x as Intel uses the feature to segment their market.[6] The following Intel processors include support for VT-x:[7]
Pentium 4 662 and 672
Pentium Extreme Edition 955 and 965 (not Pentium 4 Extreme Edition with HT)
Pentium D 920-960 except 945, 935, 925, 915
some models of the Core processors family
some models of the Core 2 processors family (list here)
Core 2 Duo E6300, E6400, E6320, E6420, E6540, E6550, E6750, E6850 (Conroe)
Core 2 Duo E8200, E8300, E8400, E8500, E8600 (Wolfdale)
Core 2 Quad Q6600, Q6700 (Kentsfield)
Core 2 Quad Q9300, Q9400, Q9400S, Q9450, Q9550, Q9550S, Q9650 (Yorkfield)
Core 2 Extreme X6800 (Conroe_XE)
Core 2 Extreme QX6700, QX6800, QX6850 (Kentsfield_XE)
Core 2 Extreme QX9650, QX9770, QX9775 (Yorkfield_XE)
Xeon 3000, 5000, 7000 series
some Atom chips
all Intel Core i7 processors
some Pentium Dual-Core models like the E5300, E5400, E6300 according to here
Celeron E3000 series
"
The motherboard:
Go into Bios Advanced CPU settings, you should see something like the picture above.

If you can't find something like "Intel (R) Virtualization Tech" or "Virtualization Technology" that means either your motherboard or your processor doesn't support virtualization. Once you try to install hyper-v on windows 2008, you'll get something like this:
Hyper-V launch failed; at least one of the processors in the system does not appear to provide a virtualization platform supported by Hyper-V.