&gt;I can&#x27;t believe Xen basically just said &quot;run PVM or get pwned&quot;<p>They didn&#x27;t say that.  scroll down to the &quot;RESOLUTION&quot; section.  they include a patch that presumably solves the problem in HVM mode.   They are just mentioning (as they should) that if you are running PV mode,  this particular problem isn&#x27;t a problem.