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SmartOS vs XCP-ng: catalog facts
SmartOS	XCP-ng
Free The SmartOS ISO is free and open source; Triton offers paid private and hosted cloud…	Free The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…
Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Runs zones and KVM or bhyve VMs on the same host ZFS and DTrace built in	No feature is locked behind a licence key Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts
Illumos base is less familiar than Linux Cloud management features require Triton on top	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
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account 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 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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