Access Debian VM in GUI mode

[saumya003]

Hello there,

** I am not a Linux expert.

I have spun a Debian 10 VM in GCP which i need to access like in a GUI mode and be able to download and install some applications for development and experiment purposes.

I think i have installed xrdp, display GUI packages, firefox, apache2 etc, but not able to land into GUI mode or browser mode.

1- I can't invoke/run firefox with "Display" error - Error: no DISPLAY environment variable specified

2- RDP from my local laptop also being refused with "connection refused" error.

Need some help.

Regards, Saumya

[Chanpan · Accepted solution]

Hi Saumya,

Please follow below article to access Linux VM gui in Google cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/architecture/chrome-desktop-remote-on-compute-engine

[saumya003]

Thanks Chanpan (and Google),  It worked pretty well.