Run Windows GUI Applications in a Linux Docker Container

Image Credit: How To Run Windows Applications And Games On Linux

1. Dockerize Microsoft Windows Applications on Linux
2. GUI Enabled via Remote Desktop in Web Browser

To be added.

• USER_PASSWD - user user password (default: Passw0rd)
• VNC_PASSWD - VNC password, max 8 chars (default: Passw0rd)
• VNC_GEOMETRY - VNC geometry (default: 1600x900)
• VNC_DEPTH - VNC depth (default: 16)

• 5900 - VNC (tigervnc)
• 80 - Web (websockify)

To be writen.

The docker image has two schema of the versioning:

1. X.Y (X >=1 ): This is for the wine version.
   1. zixia/windows:5.0: wine-5.0
2. x.y (x = 0): This is for the docker image version.
   1. zixia/windows:0.2: docker-widows version 0.2

• Cross-compiling for Windows - Ubuntu, wine and Microsoft Visual C++
• Using Visual Studio Compiler with Wine
• A C++ Hello World And A Glass Of Wine, Oh My !

• Wine HQ - Ubuntu Installing WineHQ packages
• How to Install Wine 5.0 Stable in Ubuntu 18.04, 19.10
• PlayOnLinux Explained: Components Part 1
• Wine HQ - Cheat Engine - crashes attaching to app?
• BSMG Linux Modding Guide

• Docker image that includes Wine and Winetricks for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS

1. Switch base image from ubuntu:bionic to zixia/wine:5.0.0
2. Workaround /bin was overwritten by tar -C / when extracting s6-overlay #1
3. Enable GitHub Actions & Docker Hub Deploy

VNC Works like a charm in Docker Container with Web Client.

1. TigerVNC - Tiger VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a client/server application that allows users to launch and interact with graphical applications on remote machines.
2. NoVNC - VNC Client Web Application.

1. Inited.

1. Docker noVNC by @oott123 - tigervnc, websokify, novnc and Nginx with s6-overlay in a docker image

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