Excitability aside, I agree it is thoroughly negligent of Ubuntu (and Debian?) to ship with vhost-net disabled. This has been on in the EL/Fedora distros since

Excitability aside, I agree it is thoroughly negligent of Ubuntu (and Debian?) to ship with vhost-net disabled. This has been on in the EL/Fedora distros since the feature was added. This makes me wonder how much Ubuntu is actually running cloud deployments. If it was so popular, surely someone would have hit this before. It also makes me wonder what other basic fundamentals are completely backwards on this truly mediocre distro. Anyway, you've solved this problem for yourself, log a bug and get this fixed for everyone.