Download

Download for Windows¶

Download for Windows (x86_64) Download for Windows (arm64)

Installation¶

Simply download the Zip archive release for Windows from the link above, extract the archive to a directory, then double-click on xemu.exe.

Download for macOS¶

Download for macOS (Universal)

Install Manually¶

Simply download the Zip archive release for macOS from the link above, extract the archive, then run the application. Optionally drag the xemu app bundle to your Applications folder.

Because the app is not signed, you will need to right-click, or hold the control key and click, on the app and in the context menu that appears select Open on first launch.

Install via Homebrew¶

If you have the Homebrew package manager installed, you can install xemu with:

brew install --cask xemu

Download for Linux¶

There are multiple options for running xemu on your Linux system.

AppImage¶

Download AppImage for Linux (x86_64) Download AppImage for Linux (aarch64)

Running the AppImage

The AppImage file needs to be marked executable before it can be run. You can do this in your file browser: navigate to and select the AppImage file, right-click and open file properties, navigate to permissions tab, then enable 'Allow executing file as program'. You can also do this in a terminal, simply with chmod +x *.AppImage. Once the AppImage is marked executable it can be 'double-clicked' on to start xemu. See AppImage documentation for more information about running AppImages and further system integration.

Flatpak¶

Supported architectures: x86_64 and aarch64

Set up Flatpak
Install xemu from Flathub

flatpak install -y app.xemu.xemu

Run xemu

flatpak run app.xemu.xemu

Accessible Directories

When using the flatpak installation method, only the ~/.var/app/app.xemu.xemu/data/xemu/xemu directory can be written to by xemu. The Hard Disk image must be placed there, for example at ~/.var/app/app.xemu.xemu/data/xemu/xemu/xbox_hdd.qcow2. If you want to whitelist additional directories, you can do so with flatseal or flatpak override.

Ubuntu PPA¶

Supported architectures: x86_64 and aarch64

Users running recent versions of Ubuntu (22.04 and newer) are recommended to install through the daily build PPA repository. At the command line, run the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mborgerson/xemu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install xemu

You can now launch xemu through your typical launcher, or by typing xemu at the command line.

Build from source¶

On most Linux distributions, it is also possible to build from source.

Previous Releases¶

You can find older builds of xemu on the Releases page.