Winbox in Container

This is a container for running Winbox when you don't want to install wine just for this.

sudo pacman -S xorg-xhost

sudo apt install x11-xserver-utils

sudo yum install xorg-x11-server-utils

• Install XQuartz: https://www.xquartz.org
• From the XQuartz preferences, in the security tab, make sure Allow connections from network clients is enabled then restart XQuartz.

xhost +local:

xhost +localhost

docker run -it --rm --network=host --ipc=host -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY frici/winbox

docker run -it --rm --network=host -e DISPLAY=host.docker.internal:0 frici/winbox

services:
  winbox:
    image: frici/winbox
    container_name: winbox
    restart: on-failure
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - DISPLAY=:0
      - ipc=host
    volumes:
      - /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix
      - winboxdata:/winbox/
volumes:
  winboxdata:

Copy and paste then docker compose up

If you can't find your preferred version in dockerhub you can build it for yourself. For example version 3.40:

export WV=3.40

docker build -f ./Dockerfile -t yourimagename:$WV . --no-cache --build-arg WV=$WV