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Self Host Windows .exe and Push to Web App (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by thecrimsonthreat@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hi all! Got a question, explained kinda in the title.

I have a Windows application that I’m interested in running on a LXC on my Proxmox server, and I’d like to be able to connect to it via a browser from any of my home machines just like I would my other self hosted applications.

I’m pretty technically minded and don’t mind doing some coding, just never done something like this before so I’m not sure where to start. Would love some pointers in the right direction! Thanks in advance.

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[-] s_91@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

From the repo description: https://github.com/solarkennedy/wine-x11-novnc-docker

Ever wanted to containerize your wine applications and access them via a web browser? No? Neither did I!

This container runs:

Xvfb - X11 in a virtual framebuffer
x11vnc - A VNC server that scrapes the above X11 server
noNVC - A HTML5 canvas vnc viewer
Fluxbox - a small window manager
Explorer.exe - to demo that it works
[-] thecrimsonthreat@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Literally exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!!!!

[-] thekrautboy@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Use a Windows VM, not a LXC.

And if that app doesnt have a web interface by itself, then you cant simply access it through a web interface.

[-] thecrimsonthreat@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

A Windows VM would work, yes. But it’s also more taxing and overkill for running a single application and compatibility layering for Windows apps on Linux exist to allow specifically that.

Also, I understand that natively, you cannot just access an app through a web interface if it doesn’t have one. That doesn’t mean that redirecting the application GUI’s to be hosted through a web server can’t happen.

Similar to how RDP presents a graphical view of a system through a network connection, applications can be hosted and redirected. I’m just asking if someone already has a set up like this so that I can get a start on mine.

[-] RecentGas2554@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

plz downvote me to show how negative this sub really is. its toxic

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