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it is a bit of a struggle getting it up and going the first time for sure. I just let it run free on my old macbook after i set up an Asahi linux partition on it. It doesn't have access to anything since I've never used it to log into anything other than whatever I did to install openclaw.
It definitely likes to mess up its own config files when you asked it to change things though. I imagine with docker you'd have to do some port forwarding for sure. Not sure what other permissions it would require.
It was odd stuff like wanting to put the working folder and the openclaw folder in /root/ instead of my home Dir. But trying to use my home Dir it ran into permission issues making the folders. I had to edit the docker-setup.sh script a number of timed to get it working but eventually had a weird token mismatch issues trying to approve my device. I could just turn that all off I guess but I had already spent way to long getting it to that point.
hmm odd. Mine has all its configuration and whatnot in .openclaw in my home dir.
It's probably docker that is causing the issues because it requires root to run just about anything.
I'd go with podman myself if I were going to do any sort of containerized setup since it doesn't require root but can use dockerfiles.