For anyone affected there are a bunch of workarounds available now that we cornered the issue a bit.
a) do use a more modern default than cirrus (recommended anyway), QXL being the most common one b) use the seabios package from https://launchpad.net/~canonical-server/+archive/ubuntu/server-backports c) upgrade to Ubuntu 20.10 or later
For anyone affected there are a bunch of workarounds available now that we cornered the issue a bit.
a) do use a more modern default than cirrus (recommended anyway), QXL being the most common one /launchpad. net/~canonical- server/ +archive/ ubuntu/ server- backports
b) use the seabios package from https:/
c) upgrade to Ubuntu 20.10 or later