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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=$(docker run -d hiroom2/doxrdp-debian-8-xfce)<snip>$ ipaddr=$(docker inspect –format=”{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}” “${id}”)$ rdesktop -g 1024×768 -u doxrdp -p doxrdp “${ipaddr}”
Desktops are as the following.
hiroom2/doxrdp-debian-8-gnome GNOME3 hiroom2/doxrdp-debian-8-xfce Xfce4 hiroom2/doxrdp-debian-8-mate MATE hiroom2/doxrdp-debian-8-lxde LXDE hiroom2/doxrdp-debian-8-kde KDE Plasma
- Username is doxrdp and password is doxrdp.
- One container needs 100 – 500MB RAM. kde needs 500MB, gnome needs 300MB and others needs 100MB.
- 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 3GB.
2 Download Dockerfile from GitHub
You can build Docker image on local machine with Dockerfile in GitHub.
$ git clone cd doxrdp$ ./doxrdp build debian-8-xfce$ ./doxrdp rdesktop debian-8-xfce
