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XCP-ng vs bhyve: catalog facts
XCP-ng	bhyve
Free The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…	Free Free, included with FreeBSD.
Linux, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Command line
No feature is locked behind a licence key Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts	Included with FreeBSD, nothing extra to install Also available on illumos
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	Only runs on FreeBSD and illumos hosts Managed from the command line unless paired with a front end
Self-hosted, Operating system	Operating system
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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