Running

Now that you’ve got your system set up, and GoW installed and configured, you’re ready to launch the system. Launching GoW is done with the aptly named run-gow script in the install directory. If you’re unsure about what any of the examples on this page mean, this deep dive guide should help to explain things. Also, if you’re using a GPU for hardware acceleration (and you should!) you may need to provide a --gpu option. See the deep dive for details.

Pulling containers

Now it’s time to download the pre-built container images:

  • Host Desktop

  • Headless (incl. unRAID)

run-gow --app [appname] pull
run-gow --platform headless --app [appname] pull

Currently supported appnames can be found in our GitHub repo, or you can always add your own.

This may take a minute or two to complete, since it has to download the container images.

Launching

Next, you can launch the system:

  • Host Desktop

  • Headless (incl. unRAID)

run-gow --app [appname] up
run-gow --platform headless --app [appname] up

Next up, connecting!