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Running Tabby on Windows using Tabby's exe distribution.

Find the Windows release​

Windows release

Download the release​

  • If you are using a CPU-only system, download the tabby_x86_64-windows-msvc.zip.
  • If you are using a GPU-enabled system, download the tabby_x86_64-windows-msvc-cuda117.zip, In this example, we assume you are using CUDA 11.7.

Tips:

  • Download the CUDA Toolkit from Nvidia: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
  • Ensure that you have CUDA version 11 or higher installed.
  • Check your local CUDA version by running the following command in a command prompt or PowerShell window:
nvcc --version

Find the Windows executable file​

  • Unzip the file tabby_x86_64-windows-msvc-cuda117.zip.
  • Navigate to the extracted folder named tabby_x86_64-windows-msvc-cuda117.
  • Inside this folder, go to dist -> tabby_x86_64-windows-msvc-cuda117.
  • In this directory, you'll find an executable file named tabby.exe.

Running Tabby​

Open a command prompt or PowerShell window in the directory where the tabby.exe is located (from the previous step).

Run the following command:

# For CPU-only environments
.\tabby.exe serve --model StarCoder-1B --chat-model Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct

# For CUDA-enabled environments
.\tabby.exe serve --model StarCoder-1B --chat-model Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct --device cuda

You should see a success message similar to the one in the screenshot below. After that, you can visit http://localhost:8080 to access your Tabby instance.

Windows running success