I need help enabling VT on my laptop

[david]

I'm trying to install Andyroid but it's telling me I need to enable VT in the bios. I cannot figure out how to boot into the bios. No buttons are working. Can anyone help? 

[TAZMINATOR]

See if one of these steps work for you:

 

http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/how-can-i-get-into-the-bios-on-a-toshiba-laptop/

 

Read the answers there.

[PGHammer]

I'm trying to install Andyroid but it's telling me I need to enable VT in the bios. I cannot figure out how to boot into the bios. No buttons are working. Can anyone help? 

 

I'm trying to install Andyroid but it's telling me I need to enable VT in the bios. I cannot figure out how to boot into the bios. No buttons are working. Can anyone help? 

If your laptop (or notebook) has a traditional BIOS, the setting will be labeled virtualization - it should be set to enabled.

 

To make sure the setting sticks, run (from the command line OR the Runbox - Windows key + R) msinfo32 (Windows 7 or later) - this gives you the skinny on what's supported/enabled and what isn't.  In Windows 8 or later, this not only includes settings for basic virtualization (which AndyRoid, Oracle Virtual Box and VMware all need) but the choice of either EPT or AMD-V (Second Level Address Translation for Intel and AMD CPUs, respectively).

Lest you think that notebooks and Hyper-V is a non-sequitur, think again - turns out quite a few notebook CPUs support it, especially from AMD.  On the AMD side, not only do you have all Fusion APUs, but every CPU newer than the A6 - all the way back to mobile Turion II, an Athlon II/Phenom derivative aimed at the mobile sector - I have one of these in Baby Pavilion.

If you have Intel inside, things are bit "constrained" (at least until the current generation) - for the first THREE generations of the Core I-series, you have to have a Core i3 or above - and some of them, especially in portables and derivatives, still lacked support for Hyper-V.  Fortunately, the fourth (current) generation pushed Hyper-V down into the Pentium range (specifically, PentiumG32xx, and *especially* G3258).

[jamieakers]

After enabling Virtualization in the BIOS I'd highly recommend powering off the laptop and then powering it back on again.  Pressing Save & Exit and then letting it boot Windows will not enable VT support on Intel processors.  It needs a physical power off then on.

[tkyoshi]

If you can't find any of the hotkeys you can boot into the UEFI firmware from Windows Options:

See: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht081446, yours should be similar.