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 sakuli@consol.de 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: info@consol.de