Launches the llmster daemon in the background via the CLI. This is required in
headless environments (such as Linux servers) before loading models or
starting the local server.
Desktop Users
On desktop operating systems (macOS and Windows), running this command may actually launch the LM Studio desktop application to act as the backend engine. If the GUI is already open, this function will simply detect the active instance and return successfully. While safe to use, desktop users generally do not need to call this function and can just open the application manually.