docker-headless-vnc-container's Introduction

Docker containers with "headless" VNC session

consol/ubuntu-xfce-vnc
consol/centos-xfce-vnc

The repository contains a collection of Docker images with headless VNC environments.

Each docker image is installed with the following components:

Desktop environment Xfce4
VNC-Server (default VNC port 5901)
noVNC - HTML5 VNC client (default http port 6901)
Java JRE 8
Browsers:
- Mozilla Firefox + Java Plugin
- Google Chrome (Java-Plugin is no longer supported)

Current provided OS & UI sessions:

Centos7 with Xfce4 UI session:

Run command with mapping to local port 5911:
```
docker run -d -p 5901:5901 -p 6901:6901 consol/centos-xfce-vnc
```
Build image from scratch:
```
docker build -t consol/centos-xfce-vnc centos-xfce-vnc
```
=> connect via VNC viewer localhost:5901, default password: vncpassword

=> connect via noVNC HTML5 client: http://localhost:6901/vnc_auto.html?password=vncpassword
Ubuntu 14.04 with Xfce4 UI session:

Run command with mapping to local port 5902:
```
docker run -d -p 5902:5901 -p 6902:6901 consol/ubuntu-xfce-vnc
```
Build image from scratch:
```
docker build -t consol/ubuntu-xfce-vnc ubuntu-xfce-vnc
```
=> connect via VNC viewer localhost:5902, default password: vncpassword

=> connect via noVNC HTML5 client: http://localhost:6902/vnc_auto.html?password=vncpassword

Hints

override the VNC password

Simple override the value of the environment variable VNC_PW. For example in the docker run command:

docker run -it -p 5911:5901 -p 6902:6901 -e "VNC_PW=my-new-password" consol/centos-xfce-vnc

Contact

For questions or maybe some hints, feel free to contact us via [email protected] or open an issue.

The guys behind:

ConSol Consulting & Solutions Software GmbH
Franziskanerstr. 38, D-81669 München
Tel. +49-89-45841-100, Fax +49-89-45841-111
Homepage: http://www.consol.de E-Mail: [email protected]

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