#TIGERVNC SERVER UBUNTU ZIP#
Usage: Move the zip to your proxmox server and unzip into your backup folder. If you are wanting to save yourself a bunch of time and work and just want a new blank Ubuntu 14.04 container with all of the above already setup… I am uploading a sanitized backup you can use in proxmox to get going. I really like ProxMox containers (instead of VMs) but I didn’t find any that had a desktop like this to boot so starting with Ubuntu Server seemed the easiest route to go. TigerVNC was one of the best working VNC Server/Client pairs I could find and it is very easy to configure. XFCE is very lightweight and it works really well over a VNC connection. However I do like the idea of having a desktop for a system I plan on using as a desktop 🙂 and that is what I did this for. I am not a huge fan of using a desktop GUI on a Linux server. We also installed Chromium up top so that is your default browser. This is easily fixed by going to “Applications Menu” in the upper-right-hand corner –> settings –> appearance –> Icons tab –> select Tango –> You now have icon… The only annoyance I have found so far is that there are missing icons. You will get a prompt from XFCE asking how you want your desktop setup, I chose “default”.
Once your options are adjusted, just go to where it says “vnc” server and enter your public IP and port, ex.: You should always be running encryption if possible. On the security tab I would also recommend you untick “none” for the encryption and authentication methods. For example, I set my remote screen size to 1440×900 and I tick the option to “resize remote session to local window”. You might want to adjust some options in the client. Once that is downloaded, drop the exe file onto your desktop and double-click it. You can download the TigerVNC Viewer App for Windows from here: ĭirect 64-bit Windows Viewer download link: Now you need to get the viewer application for your local workstation that will be used to connect to your remote VNC session.
#TIGERVNC SERVER UBUNTU INSTALL#
Install TigerVNC Viewer on your home workstation. VNC for your container is now good to go!ħ.
#TIGERVNC SERVER UBUNTU UPDATE#
Use the console and update and install XFCE4:Įxit # If you sudo su above then you are root and you need to type "exit" to go back to your user account Setup a new container with the Ubuntu 14.04 server templateĢ. This should allow you to remote into the XFCE GUI and use your server as a desktop system.ġ. Once you finish with this guide you should have a working Ubuntu Server Container with XFCE Desktop installed and a working VNC server. If you are using Proxmox, you could skip to the end of this article and take the easy way out… This is all written with Proxmox in mind but I believe this should work just fine for LXC and possibly Docker. After much tinkering with different options, I think I finally have found the best solution for getting a running headless VNC server in a Linux container. However none of the container templates that I could find came with a desktop or VNC out of the box. With Proxmox, I figured I had the option of using a container, which would mean very good performance and not having to dedicate a whole server. In the past this has meant using either a dedicated server (expensive) or VPS (which is just a VM… too slow). One of the things I like having is a remote system I can access and work on from anywhere.
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