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

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Robin Kretzschmar

The Ressources of your docker container will be used. You can see that with the command docker top CONTAINER.
Interesting question, I haven't worked with Amazon Lambda until now but from what I've read about it, my understanding was Lambda can only take pure functions and run them.
It would be interesting if EC2 instances can run docker virtualizations in them.

Maybe you want to try and make a post about it? :)

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Rishabh Gupta • Edited

You can run dockerized x server apps on ec2 but there are two ways you can get gui.

  1. Forwarding X using ssh, this will be very slow as X11 requires very high bandwidth and very low latency to work with reasonable speed.
  2. Using VNC, this can be done but I personally haven't tried it