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Oracle Linux 8 container with VNC Instructions
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Oracle Linux 8 container with VNC

Docker file for starting Oracle Linux 8 XFce4 Desktop via VNC

Instructions

Install docker, then

  1. Download the Dockerfile: https://github.coventry.ac.uk/raw/aa3025/docker/main/Dockerfile
  2. Run docker build . in the folder with Dockerfile
  3. check the resultant image id: docker images
  4. launch the container, e.g. image id was "xyz1234567", then do

docker run -ti -p 5901:5901 xyz1234567

  1. open vncviewer and connect to localhost:1
  2. User "user" [uid 8888] password is "qwerty", they are sudoer

The ready made example to try (1.8 GB):

docker run -ti -d -p 5901:5901 aa3025/xfce4_oraclelinux8_turbovnc:last

to mount a local folder $(pwd) to a container /mnt/host, launch it instead with

docker run -ti -d --mount src="$(pwd)",target=/mnt/host,type=bind aa3025/xfce4_oraclelinux8_turbovnc:last