Running BeamNG headless

[Leviathan321]

Is there a way to run BeamNG headless? I would need to run it via ssh on a remote machine without using the GUI. When I run it via ssh it does not produce an error but it also does not run.

[aivora-beamng]

Hi, the way to run BeamNG headless is to run it with these command-line arguments:

BinLinux/BeamNG.tech.x64.exe -gfx null -batch

Unfortunately, the feature is still in early development, so this is not documented and you will run into issues trying to use this headless version of BeamNG. We will update you here when the feature is ready to be used.

[Leviathan321]

Thank you. Do you also know if there is way to run BeamNG via ssh? It does not need to be necessarily headless then. If I want to run it via ssh, the simulator is not opened.

I way trying to set the DISPLAY variable so that BeamNG can open properly, when I run my code but without success.

[aivora-beamng]

Hi, to run BeamNG via ssh, you can either:

1. Use X server forwarding (ssh -X or ssh -Y)

ssh -X user@server
BinLinux/BeamNG.tech.x64 <arguments>

2. Use the X virtual framebuffer on the server

sudo apt-get install xvfb
Xvfb :99 # open a X virtual framebuffer on the display no. 99

and from another terminal instance you can run BeamNG:

DISPLAY=:99 BinLinux/BeamNG.tech.x64 <arguments>

You may encounter some bugs with Xvfb, we are actively working to make the experience smoother for next updates of BeamNG.tech.