
Unfortunately, somewhere between 16.09 and 17.03, paravirtualized instances stopped working. They hang at the pv-grub prompt ("grubdom>"). I tried reverting to a 4.4 kernel, reverting kernel compression from xz to bzip2 (even though pv-grub is supposed to support xz), and reverting the only change to initrd generation (5a8147479e794d5932273d01790c3602b8abeedc). Nothing worked so I'm giving up.