ozzadar/docker-headless-vnc-container repository overview

⁠Docker containers with "headless" VNC session

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:

  • Google Chrome v50.0.2661.94

• Ubuntu 14.04 with Xfce4 UI session:

  Run command with mapping to local port 5902:

  docker run -d -p 7902:22 -p 5902:5901 -p 6902:6901 ozzadar/docker-headless-vnc-container:ubuntu
  

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  Build image from scratch:

  docker build -t ubuntu-xfce-vnc ubuntu-xfce-vnc
  

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  => connect via VNC viewer localhost:5902, default password: vncpassword

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

  => connect via ssh: ssh localhost -p 7902 -l root , default password: root

⁠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" ozzadar/docker-headless-vnc-container:ubuntu

⁠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]⁠