New version for new Monero Hard Fork on 10/18
Updated on 4/28/2018 with new PoW for Monero7 and XMR-Stak miner
Azure Batch and Pool VM
- Connect to http://portal.azure.com
- Create a new Batch Account (free) and associated Storage Account with pool allocation mode “Batch Service” so you don’t need Key Vault
- Open Batch Account and select Pools
- Add a new pool with the following settings
- Image Type = Marketplace (Linux/Windows)
- Publisher = Canonical
- Offer = Ubuntu Server
- Sku = 16.04-LTS
- Node Size =
- F16 – XMR Monero
- NC6 – ETH Ethereum
- Mode = Fixed
- Low priority = 3
- Resize timeout = 90 minutes
- Wait for resize operation if succeed or not as we are using Low Priority VM so it may fail if Azure has other higher priority VM
- Click on Nodes and review if VM is there
- Select the VM and verify Overview = Idle
- Click on Connect and add a new user with Administrator privilege
Monero CPU miner in Ubuntu F16 VM
- Create the following setup_xmr_f16_v1.sh file:
sudo apt-get --assume-yes update sudo apt-get --assume-yes install libmicrohttpd-dev libssl-dev cmake build-essential libhwloc-dev screen git nano git clone https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-cpu.git cd xmr-stak-cpu/ cmake . make install cd bin/ mv config.txt config.txt.ori wget https://<your_storage_account>.blob.core.windows.net/miner/f16/config.txt sudo sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=128 screen -dmS monero sudo ./xmr-stak
- Create the following cpu.txt file:
"cpu_threads_conf" :
[
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 0 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 1 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 2 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 3 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 4 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 5 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 6 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 7 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 8 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 9 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 10 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 11 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 12 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 13 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 14 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 15 },
],
- Create the following config.txt file:
"use_slow_memory" : "no_mlck", "nicehash_nonce" : false, "aes_override" : null, "use_tls" : false, "tls_secure_algo" : true, "tls_fingerprint" : "", "call_timeout" : 10, "retry_time" : 10, "giveup_limit" : 0, "verbose_level" : 4, "h_print_time" : 60, "daemon_mode" : true, "output_file" : "./xmr.log", "httpd_port" : 51000, "prefer_ipv4" : true,
- Create the following pools.txt file:
"pool_list" :
[
{"pool_address" : "pool.minexmr.com:7777",
"wallet_address" : "your_wallet",
"rig_id" : "",
"pool_password" : "x",
"use_nicehash" : false,
"use_tls" : false,
"tls_fingerprint" : "",
"pool_weight" : 1
},
],
"currency" : "monero7",
Ethereum GPU miner in Ubuntu with NC6 VM
- Create the following setup_eth_nc6_v1.sh file based on Azure Driver Setup:
CUDA_REPO_PKG=cuda-repo-ubuntu1604_9.0.176-1_amd64.deb
wget -O /tmp/${CUDA_REPO_PKG} http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1604/x86_64/${CUDA_REPO_PKG}
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/${CUDA_REPO_PKG}
rm -f /tmp/${CUDA_REPO_PKG}
sudo apt-get --assume-yes update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install cuda-drivers
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get --assume-yes update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install ethereum ethminer
wget https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases/download/v0.11.0/ethminer-0.11.0-Linux.tar.gz
tar -xf ethminer-0.11.0-Linux.tar.gz
cd bin
./ethminer --farm-recheck 200 -G -S us1.ethermine.org:4444 -FS us2.ethermine.org:4444 -O <wallet_id>.nc6
Upload files to Storage Account
- Install Azure Storage Explorer
- Connect to Azure subscription
- Select Azure Storage Account created for Azure Batch
- Browse to Blob Containers
- Right click on Blob containers -> Create a new container
- Right click on new container -> Set public level access
- Set “Public read access for blob only”
- Create 2 new folder f16 and nc6
- Upload the 3 files in correct folder as reported below:
https://<your_storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/miner/f16/setup_xmr_f16_v4.sh https://<your_storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/miner/f16/config.txt https://<your_storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/miner/f16/pools.txt https://<your_storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/miner/f16/cpu.txt https://<your_storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/miner/nc6/setup_eth_nc6_v1.sh
- Remember to edit setup_xmr_f16_v4.sh and point to correct config.txt file location
Create a Start task for pool
- Select the pool
- Select Start Task
- Max retry = 0
- Command line = sudo ./setup_xmr_f16_v4.sh
- User identity = Pool autouser, Admin
- Wait for success = False
- Resource files
- Blob source = https://<your_storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/miner/f16/setup_xmr_f16_v4.sh
- File path = setup_xmr_f16_v4.sh
- File mode = 777
- Environment settings = not configured
Monitor Linux resource
- Monitor xmr miner =
tail -s 5 -n 100 -f /mnt/batch/tasks/startup/wd/xmr-stak/build/bin/xmr.log screen -r -S monero
- Other monitoring tools =
Review this post = https://inglele.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/ethereum-block-reward/
Troubleshooting
If script is failing to start, please review the log files in
cd /mnt/batch/tasks/startup vi /mnt/batch/tasks/startup/stderr.txt vi /mnt/batch/tasks/startup/stdout.txt
Source:
Ing. Lele's Blog - HeadQuarter 