Proxmox is hailed by many as the king of virtualization platforms, though there are just as many operating systems you can use to power your home labs. There’s XCP-ng, which is great for tinkerers who prefer the Xen hypervisor over KVM. For a more production-oriented environment, you’ve got Harvester, though you’ll need a beefy server for the OS.
Then there’s Hyper-V, Microsoft’s Type-1 hypervisor, which is built around the Windows ecosystem instead of Linux. With Proxmox and Hyper-V bringing unique perks to the table, we’ve pitted the two platforms against each other to help you decide which one’s better for your experimentation workstation.
I’ve compared Proxmox with both the standalone Hyper-V Server 2019 version as…