<h3 align="center"><b>XCP-ng</b></h3>
<p align="center"><b>Turnkey Open Source Virtualization Platform</b></p>

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XCP-ng: the user-friendly, high-performance virtualization solution, developed collaboratively for unrestricted features and open-source accessibility.

## ⚡️ Quick start

Download [the ISO here](https://mirrors.xcp-ng.org/isos/8.2/xcp-ng-8.2.1.iso?https=1), and [install it](https://xcp-ng.org/#easy-to-install) on your own hardware.

## 📚 Documentation

The official documentation is available at https://docs.xcp-ng.org

## 🚀 Features

- **Powerful virtualization platform**: run, snapshot, live migrate & grow any kind of workload/Operating system on top of XCP-ng, even containers!
- **Turnkey:** no complicated setup, XCP-ng is a true appliance with everything pre-configured and ready to run your VMs!
- **Security:** based on the Xen hypervisor technology, XCP-ng is one of the most secure virtualization platform on the market, both technologically and with a really [serious security workflow](https://docs.xcp-ng.org/project/security).
- **Manageable at scale:** there's many integrated ways to manage your XCP-ng host, both locally and remotely with a CLI, GUI and API. [Xen Orchestra](https://vates.tech/xen-orchestra/) is the de facto administration & backup platform for it.
- **Fully Open Source:** no paywalls or complicated licenses, all the features are free
- **Pro supported:** want to run in production? XCP-ng is part of the [Vates VMS](https://vates.tech/) stack that got you covered from the virtualization platform to the administration & backup tools.

## 📸 Screenshots

![](https://vates.tech/assets/img/misc/XOLite_Pool_dashboard_mockup_dashes_light_2.png.avif)

![](https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/content/images/size/w1600/2023/05/Desktop---Pool-dashboard---Default.png)

## 🧑‍🚀 Community

XCP-ng has a living community that you can join on our [forum](https://xcp-ng.org/forum/). 

The project is open to [contributions](https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Development-process-tour), [bug reports](https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/How-to-report-bugs) and you can also [host a mirror](https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Mirrors) for XCP-ng.
