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Discussion on: Run GUI app in linux docker container on windows host

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Arie van den Bos • Edited

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the nice explanation. I was wondering if you or any other reader has ever tried running this on a windowsservercore container on Docker for Windows?

On Ubuntu I got it working the way you described. For certain reasons I am now trying to run Firefox on windowsservercore but without succes.

Thanks,

Arie

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Robin Kretzschmar

Hi Arie,

as of my understanding windows server core it not capable of running such GUI applications by default. I researched that and came across this article on medium which has some information on how to add GUI capabilities to windows server core.

But I think more of interest for you would be this youtube video where they try Chrome, Firefox and Opera on Windows Server Core. (v.1709)

Result of video:

  • Google Chrome: Working
  • Opera: Working
  • Mozilla Firefox: Not working