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As per your error message above, rviz is attempting to make use of OpenGL for 3D rendering. Depending on your host setup, you may need to enable hardware acceleration into the container to make use of OpenGL dependant applications.

Please see this related entry in the ROS wiki:
http://wiki.ros.org/docker/Tutorials/Hardware%20Acceleration

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