HyperV Kernel Configuration

For a Hyper-V generation 2 system, you'll need certain options enabled in the Kernel in this order because latter options aren't available until earlier options are enabled:

• CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST: Processor type and featueres > Linux Guest Support
• CONFIG_PARAVIRT: Processor type and features > Linux Guest Support > Enable paravirtualization code
• CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS: Processor type and features > Linux Guest Support > Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks
• CONFIG_CONNECTOR: Device Drivers > Connector - unified userspace <-> kernelspase linker
• CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS: Device Drivers > SCSI device support > SCSI Transports > FiberChannel Transport Attributes
• CONFIG_HYPERV: Device Drivers > Microsoft Hyper-V guest support > Microsoft Hyper-V client drivers
• CONFIG_HYPERV_UTILS: Device Drivers > Microsoft Hyper-V guest support > Microsoft Hyper-V Utilities driver
• CONFIG_HYPERV_BALLOON: Device Drivers > Microsoft Hyper-V guest support > Microsoft Hyper-V Balloon driver
• CONFIG_HYPERV_STORAGE: Device Drivers > SCSI device support > SCSI low-level drivers > Microsoft Hyper-V virtual storage driver
• CONFIG_HYPERV_NET: Device Drivers > Network device support > Microsoft Hyper-V virtual network driver
• CONFIG_HYPERV_KEYBOARD: Device Drivers > Input device support > Hardware I/O ports > Microsoft Synthetic Keyboard driver
• CONFIG_FB_HYPERV: Device Drivers > Graphics support > Frame buffer Devices > Microsoft Hyper-V Synthetic Video support
• CONFIG_HID_HYPERV_MOUSE: Device Drivers > HID support > Special HID drivers > Microsoft Hyper-V mouse driver
• CONFIG_PCI_HYPERV: Bus options (PCI etc.) > Hyper-V PCI Frontend
• CONFIG_VSOCKETS: Networking support > Networking options > Virtual Socket protocol
• CONFIG_HYPERV_VSOCKETS: Networking support > Networking options > Hyper-V transport for Virtual Sockets