Do you want to connect to your Bluemix VM with Graphic User Interface? In this slide, I will show you how to use VNC Viewer to connect to your Ubuntu VM on Bluemix.

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Connect to
Bluemix VM with VNC
(Ubuntu Desktop)
Joseph Chang
Senior IT Specialist
IBM Cloud Group
Document number

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Reference:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-
vnc-on-ubuntu-14-04
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Prerequisite
 Launch the Bluemix VM dashboard.
 Make sure you already have a Ubuntu 14.04 instance with public IP address.
 Make sure you have the key for access VM.
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I will use this
instance for
illustration.
Here is my key.

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The key we need.
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The .pem is generate
by bluemix.
The .ppk is generate
by PuttyGen.

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Install VNC Server
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Connect to Ubuntu console with Putty
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Install TighVNC
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies tightvncserver
We can get the XFCE packages,
along with the package for
TightVNC, directly from Ubuntu's
software repositories using apt:
When it’s done. You will see….

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Configure VNC server
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For the first time you run “vncserver”, your got prompt to set up the password.
Take note for the two
passwords, we will use them
when login from desktop.

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Install xutils
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sudo apt-get install xutils xbase-clients xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi
When the configuration is done. You may
see the error. Don’t worry, it’s easy to fix.
Just enter the following command:

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Check point
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When font installation
done. You should see the
message.
Type “ls –al” command,
you should see .vnc
directory in you HOME
directory.

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Start VNC Server
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Start the server by
enter “vncserver”
Check if the
vncserver is
running with ps.

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Launch VNC Viewer
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Now we back from
cloud to the
Desktop

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Create a secure socket
 Launch a Windows Command Prompt and issue the following command:
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ssh -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 -N -f -i myAccessKey.pem ibmcloud@129.41.156.204
< your key>
< your VM IP>

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Launch VNC
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If you don’t have VNC
Viewer, see Appendix-
1 for downloading.

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Input the password
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Use the password
in page 9.

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Congratulation !!
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Appendix -1 Install Web Browser
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The default
browser doesn’t
work . Let’s install
by ourself.

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Install firefox
 sudo apt-get install firefox
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Back to the putty and issue the command
When installation done, go to
Application Menus-> Setting -> Preferred Applications
Select Mozilla Firfox as the
default brower

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Now we have the Firefox Brower,
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* If you prefer google chrome, go ahead do it by yourself.

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Appendix -2 Download VNC Viewer
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Download Real VNC Viewer
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https://www.realvnc.com/download/vnc/

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Thank you
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