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XCP-ng vs Hyper-V: catalog facts
XCP-ng	Hyper-V
Free The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…	Free Included at no extra cost in Windows Pro, Enterprise and Windows Server editions.
Linux, Self-hosted	Windows
No feature is locked behind a licence key Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts	Built into Windows with nothing extra to buy Type-1 hypervisor with near-native performance
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	Not available on Windows Home editions Windows only
Self-hosted, Operating system	Operating system
Open source	Closed 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 September 23, 2026

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