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Installation

Xen ships precompiled binaries for Linux, Windows, and macOS. See your platform below for install instructions.

Linux

The easiest way to install Xen on Linux is to run the following command in your terminal:

curl -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakerieger/Xen/refs/heads/gh-pages/install.sh | sh

You can also download packages for Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora, or just install manually from a tarball.

Download Xen for Linux

Windows

You can install Xen on Windows via the installer package (.exe) or manually from a zip archive.

Download Xen for Windows

macOS

Xen has releases for both x64 and ARM64 macOS platforms. To install, download the appropriate tarball for your CPU architecture. Extract it and put the xen executable somewhere in your PATH environment variable.

Download Xen for macOS