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[Chris Valean <cvalean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I was able to install a -virtual kernel, however it's not showing up as a boot option.
This is what I have on a 14.04.1 build after enabling trusty-proposed branch in sources.list.
The OS is still booting with the -generic kernel and there is no -virtual kernel in grub after installing the package.

root@ubuntu14041:~# apt-get install linux-image-virtual/trusty-proposed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-image-virtual is already the newest version.
Selected version '3.13.0.54.61' (Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-proposed [amd64]) for 'linu
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-signed-image-3.13.0-32-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 128 not upgraded.


root@ubuntu14041:~# dpkg -l | grep linux-image
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic        3.13.0-32.57                     amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-45-generic        3.13.0-45.74                     amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-54-generic        3.13.0-54.91                     amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic  3.13.0-32.57                     amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-45-generic  3.13.0-45.74                     amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-virtual                  3.13.0.54.61                     amd64        This package will always depend on the latest minimal generic kernel image.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1444179

Title:
  add hid drivers to virtual kernel

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Utopic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Please move hid_hyperv and hyperv_fb to the -virtual kernel. Microsoft
  reports that these drivers are needed for connecting to Azure VM's
  using the Hyper-V manager.

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