

Because there is no display connected to your instance, disable the display manager service on your instance (Xfce only).Set up the desktop environment with Chrome Remote Desktop.


The way is to utilize your Gmail ID to provision the system to you and then securely take the remote of the system. While there are many ways to set up GUI by installing the GUI solution and then unblocking the firewall rules, a more secure and better approach is by using Chrome Remote Desktop.Ĭhrome Remote Desktop is a remote desktop software tool, developed by Google, that allows a user to remotely control another computer’s desktop through a proprietary protocol also developed by Google, internally called Chromoting. In Linux VMs, while we have options to SSH into the instances, sometimes there is a requirement to have a GUI based access to these VMs. A lot Linux based/Windows based OS options are available to host on the VMs. Google Cloud offers Google Compute Engine (GCE) which is a solution for hosting Virtual Machines in GCP. Chromoting GUI access on a Google Cloud Compute Engine running Linux OS using Chrome Remote Desktop
