centos-vnc container

This is this source code repository for the headless el8 and el9 xfce container quay.io/l3o/centos-xfce-vnc.

Currently the following el8 and el9 versions are supported:

• CentOS Stream 8 (stream8)
• CentOS Stream 9 (stream9)
• Rocky Linux 8 (rockylinux8)
• Rocky Linux 9 (rockylinux9)

volumes

• /config - directory containing additional resources, e.g. background images - optional

environment variables

• USER_ID - arbitrary user id used for the xfce session (default: 10000)
• USER - arbitrary username for the xfce session (default: container)
• VNCPASSWD - password for vnc connection (default: pod.VNC)
• VNCRESOLUTION - vnc screen resolution (default: 1280x720)
• BACKGROUND - path to background image in the container, e.g.
• DESKTOP - path to directory containing .desktop files in the container (default: /config/desktop)

examples

This image provides a run label to start the container. To display the corresponding command please use

$ podman container runlabel --display run quay.io/l3o/centos-xfce-vnc

whereas

$ podman container runlabel run quay.io/l3o/centos-xfce-vnc

actually executes the runlabel run. The default runlabel will publish the internal vnc port 5901 to a random port on the host.

In order to specify a custom background image a directory may be mounted to /config into the container and the full qualified path to the image must be provided using the BACKGROUND environment.

$ podman run --rm -p 5901:5901 \
             --cap-drop=all --cap-add=chown --cap-add=setuid \
             --cap-add=setgid --cap-add=setpcap --cap-add=audit_control \
             --cap-add=dac_override --cap-add=fowner \
             -v /tmp/bg:/config:ro -e BACKGROUND=/config/custom-bg.png \
             --tmpfs /run -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro -d \
             quay.io/l3o/centos-xfce-vnc:latest

License

GPLv3+

Author Information

Christian Felder