LM Studio in headless mode on a Linux server without graphics

[Tamila-2017]

Hello all,

I have two computers:

1. Linux desktop with graphics
2. Linux server without graphics

I want to install LM Studio on a Linux server without graphics, and then use it from the desktop.
To do this, I need to run LM Studio on a server without graphics.

The official website has instructions for installing headless mode.
However, I can't use it because there is no graphics on the server.

I try differnet variants start on server.
For example -

./LM_Studio-0.3.5.AppImage server start
or 
./LM_Studio-0.3.5.AppImage --no-sandbox  server start
or
xvfb-run ./LM_Studio-0.3.5.AppImage --no-sandbox  server start

and also created a service /etc/systemd/system/lmstudio.service -

[Unit]
Description=LM Studio Service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart='/home/ai/.appimage/xvfb-run LM_Studio-0.3.5.AppImage'  --no-sandbox  server start
WorkingDirectory=/home/ai/
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

but apart from many errors when starting the LM_Studio, I didn't get anything else.

This is a disadvantage manual of LM Studio 👎

Please tell me how to eliminate it?

[Tamila-2017]

No reaction... Is the LM Studio project dead?

[yagil]

Graphics currently still a requirement. We're working to enable server-only support w/o graphics. Sign up for updates here: https://forms.gle/FBgAH43GRaR2cHde6

[Tamila-2017]

Thank you, waiting....

[ViCtOr-dev13]

any news ? @yagil

[joseluisll]

any news on this?

I think the terminology used is wrong. Headless should be replaced by As a service. Headless means no GUI, so no desktop environment. You guys are coding such a tool without knowing the difference?

[Semmu]

I wanted to try LM Studio as well on a linux server without any graphical interface, but the hard requirement for it has stopped me.

If LM Studio is capable of running without any GUI then I think it should also support initial deployment and configuration without any graphics as well.

[unkwn1code]

It's kind of wild that Mac and Windows have headless, and that a post from last year about v0.3.5 (also why are we on 0.3.23 but that post on 0.3.5 was from '24?) which included mentioning linux in an announcement about headless run.

There are workarounds but it's convoluted. I'm going to work on getting it set up for my own use and probably add it to the AUR but that doesn't help those on debian based machines etc.

I very much enjoy LM Studio but the lack of concern for linux users for such an extended time is a bit frustrating and likely to push be back to ollama

v0.3.5 announcement https://lmstudio.ai/blog/lmstudio-v0.3.5 .... from 10-22-2024 with 0 mention headless does not work on linux... How as it not mentioned and you know, why has it been ignored seemingly altogether for linux

[eximius313]

Are there any plans for implementing this?

[eleaner]

so if it is not resolved - why is it closed?

[yagil]

Should not have been closed indeed

[yagil]

Yesterday we launched llmster our no-GUI daemon. Learn more: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/0.4.0#deploy-on-servers-deploy-in-ci-deploy-anywhere

To install:

curl -fsSL https://lmstudio.ai/install.sh | bash

Set up as startup task: https://lmstudio.ai/docs/developer/core/headless_llmster