Unable to open X display when trying to run google-chrome on Centos (Rhel 7.5)

Question

I need to run Google Chrome remotely on a virtual machine using SSH. I do not want xforwarding - I want to utilize the GPU available on the vm. When I try running google-

Answer 1

You can try with Xvfb. it does not require additional hardware.

Install Xvfb if you didn't install yet and do the following steps.

sudo apt-get install -y xvfb

Dependencies to make "headless" chrome/selenium work:

sudo apt-get -y install xorg xvfb gtk2-engines-pixbuf

sudo apt-get -y install dbus-x11 xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable

Optional but nifty: For capturing screenshots of Xvfb display:

sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick x11-apps

Make sure that Xvfb starts every time the box/vm is booted:

Xvfb -ac :99 -screen 0 1280x1024x16 & export DISPLAY=:99

Now execute google-chrome