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Hyper-V vs XCP-ng: catalog facts
Hyper-V	XCP-ng
Free Included at no extra cost in Windows Pro, Enterprise and Windows Server editions.	Free The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…
Windows	Linux, Self-hosted
Built into Windows with nothing extra to buy Type-1 hypervisor with near-native performance	No feature is locked behind a licence key Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts
Not available on Windows Home editions Windows only	Xen Orchestra's prebuilt appliance is a paid product; the free path is building it from source Hardware compatibility follows Xen, which is narrower than KVM
Operating system	Self-hosted, Operating system
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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