I have created Docker images which runs XRDP on CentOS 7 desktop including Xfce4 and MATE. This article will introduces this Docker image. For detail usage of docker, please check this.
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1 Download Docker image from DockerHub
The following will pull Docker image from DockerHub and connect to container with rdesktop. You can connect to container with Windows remote desktop.
$ id=$(docker run -d --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN --tmpfs /tmp \
--tmpfs /run -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro \
hiroom2/doxrdp-centos-7-xfce)
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$ ipaddr=$(docker inspect \
--format="{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}" "${id}")
$ rdesktop -g 1024x768 -u doxrdp -p doxrdp "${ipaddr}"
Desktops are as the following.
| hiroom2/doxrdp-centos-7-xfce | Xfce4 |
| hiroom2/doxrdp-centos-7-mate | MATE |
- Username is doxrdp and password is doxrdp.
- One container needs 100 - 150MB RAM. xfce needs 100MB and mate needs 150MB.
- In case Core-i5 and SSD machine, it takes about 5 seconds to connect to XRDP after starting container.
- This docker image is not shrinked at all. Image size is about 2GB.
2 Download Dockerfile from GitHub
You can build Docker image on local machine with Dockerfile in GitHub.
$ git clone https://github.com/hiroom2/doxrdp $ cd doxrdp $ ./doxrdp build centos-7-xfce $ ./doxrdp rdesktop centos-7-xfce