Here’s another recording of a demo I’ve made of our efforts on running Labtainers with a Web desktop.
This time, we’re using a modified version of DoroWu’s noVNC X11 wrapper container (“docker-ubuntu-vnc-desktop“), to provide an X11 Display to labtainers.
I initially adapted DoroWu’s container image by using Debian instead of Ubuntu, but it appeared that noVNC 1.0.0 was a bit too old in the Debian package. So I switched back to the same version as the one DoroWu chose, and this time no more disconnections.
Also, we’re now rebuilding the Labtainer master container from upstream’s Git repo. Fresh Labs every day 😉
Labtainers in a Web desktop through noVNC X11 proxy, full containers from Olivier Berger on Vimeo.
See our previous post on a similar topic for the context.
You can find the Dockerfile and scripts at : https://gitlab.com/olberger/virtual-labs/tree/xfce4/labtainer-docker, and the 2 container images have been put on the DockerHub.
We’d welcome some feedback on whether you find this interesting.