XCP-ng
Ranked 8 of 16 hypervisors by recommenders
Free open-source virtualization platform that people recommend for home and small business servers because it is a complete, production-quality package. The most common caveat is that its web management portal needs Xen Orchestra installed as a separate VM.
Free open-source virtualization platform that people recommend for home and small business servers because it is a complete, production-quality package. The most common caveat is that its web management portal needs Xen Orchestra installed as a separate VM.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Complete, production-quality virtualization platform
“still the most attractive system on the market for home / small business use”
Comment from 28 Jul 2026 in “Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware” “I do also fully agree that XCP-ng is the most attractive for small projects.”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware” “I like it because it is not a bag of parts. Everything is included.”
Comment from 24 Jul 2026 in “Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware” - Comment from 27 Jul 2026 in “Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Web portal needs separate Xen Orchestra VM
“The web management portal requires Xen Orchestra and needs to be installed as a seperate VM which can be irritating”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available”
Other hypervisors people recommend
The four most recommended other hypervisors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proxmox VE | 208 | 60 | 78% | 12 | 3 yrs16 owners | Approved |
| Incus | 90 | 8 | 92% | 12 | 6 mo5 owners | Approved |
| KVM | 32 | 9 | 78% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Hyper-V | 17 | 9 | 65% | 9 | — | — |
| XCP-ngThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Most of the stuff I use is free and excellent.”
“I do also fully agree that XCP-ng is the most attractive for small projects.”
“still the most attractive system on the market for home / small business use”
“XCP-ng is that level of production quality.”
“I like it because it is not a bag of parts. Everything is included.”
“XCP-ng could be an option”
“The web management portal requires Xen Orchestra and needs to be installed as a seperate VM which can be irritating”
“I've heard good things about”
“install XCP-ng, passthrough the LSI to the TrueNas VM”
“I had a nice time setting up xcp-ng”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.