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XenServerXCP-ng
Paid

Commercial licences with a Trial Edition; included in some Citrix subscriptions.

 Free

The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…

Self-hosted Linux, Self-hosted
  • Mature Xen-based hypervisor
  • Included with several Citrix subscriptions
  • No feature is locked behind a licence key
  • Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts
  • Commercial licensing for full use
  • Oriented toward businesses and Citrix environments
  • 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
Closed source Open source
License: Proprietary 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

Checked September 24, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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