jimmysong76/bitcoin-vnc repository overview

⁠bitcoin-vnc

Simple VNC-connectable docker container that uses:

• Ubuntu Core 14.04
• LXDE desktop
• TightVNC server
• Bitcoin 0.12.1

⁠Build

Include password.txt with the password for TightVNC (by default this is "password"). This must be at least 8 characters and is truncated if longer.

⁠Usage

You can build with

(host) $ docker build -t bitcoin-vnc .

Create and start with

(host) $ id
uid=XXXX(YYYY) gid=ZZZZ(YYYY)
(host) $ docker create --name=bitcoin -p 5901:5901 -v <bitcoin dir>:/bitcoin -e PUID=XXXX -e PGID=ZZZZ bitcoin-vnc
(host) $ docker start bitcoin

You can connect to the vnc server using at SERVER_NAME:5901 using the password from password.txt (default is "password") where SERVER_NAME is the docker container host's name or IP.

Within the container, you can query use bitcoin-cli as normal:

(container) $ bitcoin-cli getinfo

⁠Credit

Based off of the docker image kaixhin/vnc⁠.