DougBarry / wine-x11-novnc-docker

Base Docker image to run wine programs in a web browser via noVNC (html5 vnc viewer) + Xvfb + x11vnc

wine-x11-novnc-docker

Not a very good name, is it?

Ever wanted to containerize your wine applications and access them via a web browser? No? Neither did I!

This container runs:

• Xvfb - X11 in a virtual framebuffer
• x11vnc - A VNC server that scrapes the above X11 server
• noNVC - A HTML5 canvas vnc viewer
• Fluxbox - a small window manager
• Explorer.exe - to demo that it works

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• stable-debian-11-latest, stable-debian-bullseye-latest
• stable-ubuntu-20.04-latest, stable-ubuntu-focal-latest
• stable-fedora-35-latest, stable-fedora-thirty_five-latest

Run It

Debian

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 dennispohlmann/wine-x11-novnc-docker:stable-debian-11-latest
xdg-open http://localhost:8080

In your web browser you should see the default application, explorer.exe:

Ubuntu

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 dennispohlmann/wine-x11-novnc-docker:stable-ubuntu-20.04-latest
xdg-open http://localhost:8080

Fedora

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 dennispohlmann/wine-x11-novnc-docker:stable-fedora-35-latest
xdg-open http://localhost:8080

Modifying

This is a base image. You should fork or use this base image to run your own wine programs?

Issues

• Wine could be optimized a bit
• Fluxbox could be skinned or reduced