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RUN NEMOCLAW WITHOUT KILLING PORT 8080 ;)

Struggling with NemoClaw's hardcoded port 8080 blocking your setup?

Just skip NemoClaw and run OpenShell directly. NemoClaw is only a management wrapper on top of OpenShell. The actual sandboxing, network policy enforcement, and agent security all come from OpenShell itself.

Here is all you need:

  1. https://docs.nvidia.com/openshell/latest/index.html

  2. Start the OpenShell gateway on a port of your choice (no port 8080 required):
    openshell gateway start --port 9090

  3. Create a sandbox with OpenClaw pre-installed:
    openshell sandbox create my-assistant --image ghcr.io/nvidia/openshell-community/sandboxes/openclaw:latest

  4. Connect to it:
    openshell sandbox connect my-assistant

OpenClaw starts automatically inside the sandbox. You get the same kernel level isolation, filesystem restrictions, and network policy enforcement that NemoClaw provides. No port conflicts, no onboarding wizard, no hardcoded port 8080.

This is a known early preview bug in NemoClaw. Until it is fixed, running OpenShell directly is the cleaner path.

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