Friday Night Gaming Container

Allows DCS Lab Machines to run games in an isolated container.

Want to play games on your DCS Lab Machine with your own account? See below :)

Usage

First install the host requirements onto you user account:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UWCS/fng/main/install.sh | sh

Once complete, choose "User Script" on the login screen before entering your password.

How it works

Installer

The installer script sets up the following components on your host:

• Distrobox: Manages the container environment.
• .xsession - Custom script to start the gaming environment.
• .config/containers/storage.conf - Configuration file for Podman storage.
• .vnc/xstartup - Configuration file to enable remote access to the container via VNC.

Image

The container image is based on Docker's Arch Linux. It includes patched in Nvidia support from the host through Distrobox. SystemD is executed within the container to maintain a sandboxed environment.

The Dockerfile handles container building, install system components here.

The image is built via a Github Actions workflow and packaged into GHCR, run the workflow via dispatch trigger to update.

Development

Run builddev.sh to build the container tag fng:dev Run rundev.sh to execute this image using Xephyr on the lab machines

Requires Xephyr binary installed on lab machines