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oVirt vs XCP-ng: catalog facts
oVirt	XCP-ng
Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…	Free The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…
Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Cluster-wide live migration, high availability and storage domains from one portal	No feature is locked behind a licence key Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts
Development slowed considerably after Red Hat Virtualization reached end of life Setup expects enterprise-style shared storage and is heavy for a small homelab	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
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Operating system
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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