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XCP-ng vs Ganeti: catalog facts
XCP-ng	Ganeti
Free The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…	Free Free and open source, supported through donations via SPI.
Linux, Self-hosted	Linux, 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	Built on established hypervisors such as Xen and KVM Designed for high availability on commodity servers
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	Aimed at clusters of about 3 to 100 nodes Requires Linux server administration skills
Self-hosted, Operating system	Self-hosted
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	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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