@scottalanmiller said in PV or HVM for new VMs in XS?:
HVM is the current recommendation. This is going to change again soon when some new PV driver advances from the HVM side get back ported to the pure PV side. So eventually we expect PV to take the lead again as it is a more solid design. The biggest thing is that the HVM side uses hardware assist but PV is pure software. PV is getting hardware assist added to it and when it does it is expected to be basically container level speeds.
Agree, PV/containerization is going to be the next BIG thing: http://thenewstack.io/hypervisors-container-era/ .