[[GUIDE] Hive OS VM in 10 minutes]

On 3/27/2020 at 6:31 AM, zeus83 said:

Hi guys, I've recently setup a Hive OS VM and ecountered a couple of issues during this. So I've decided to prepare a quick start guide. This guide won't explain you what Hive OS is and used for, neither it will show how to setup your Hive OS account and crypto wallets. There is a lot of guides on this on the web.

 

[Prerequisite]

The only prerequisite is you have to setup your Hive OS account and properly configure at least one farm and worker. You can go through the guide here or just google any appropriate guide you like.

 

[Instructions]

1. Download the latest Hive OS GPU image here . You should then unpack it and put into your isos share temporarily. For me it was a 7Gb file named [email protected] .
2. Normally this image file is supposed to be written to the usb stick, but we instead just use it as our VM disk. You need to copy the image to your VM share.

3. cd /mnt/disks/vm/
   mkdir hiveos
   cp /mnt/user/isos/[email protected] hiveos/vdisk1.img
   

4. Now let's create a VM itself which will use our Hive OS disk image. Use Ubuntu template because Hive OS is ubuntu based distro.
5. There are however a couple of issues we must to address. First I suggest to leave OVMF bios as default. If the VM won't boot then try the same steps with SeaBIOS. I wasn't able to boot some cards with default OVMF bios. Second it seems that Hive OS doesn't contain the Virtio drivers normally found in Ubuntu and most Linux distros. I could overcome this with setting Primary vdisk bus to SATA . As for CPU and memory don't assign much resources to it. 
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7. You have to pass your dedicated GPU as well because Hive OS isn't much useful without it. 
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9. Switch to XML view to change the network adapter, because as I told before there are no Virtio drivers preinstalled in Hive OS. I chose rtl8139 and it worked fine for me. You must remember that whenever you edit anything using the form view the XML part would reset and you'll have to add that part once again.
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11. Now we are ready to start our VM. Once VM is started properly you need to figure out it's assigned IP. I use my router admin page for that.
12. Then we need connect to our VM and finish the worker configuration. Since we passed through GPU and didn't configure the VNC we'll use Hive OS integrated shellinabox. Open https://YOUR_IP:4200/ in a browser. Default login is user password 1 . If everything is ok you'll see a welcoming screen like this.
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14. Your GPU must be present and identified correctly.
15. It's now time to finish our Hive OS worker setup. Type firstrun and follow the instructions to enter your worker RIG_ID and RIG_PASSWORD .
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17. You'd better reboot your VM after configuration finished.
18. After completion you might check your Hive dashboard to see that the worker is online and assign a flight sheet to it.
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[FAQ]

todo

Question for you. is there a reason you navigated in a browser to the url to get to the web console of the hive OS instead of plugging in a monitor into the passthrough GPU? Haven't followed this guide but was going to give it a shot here shortly. 

[[Support] PTRFRLL - Docker images]

On 3/13/2021 at 4:53 AM, darkangelus said:

Thanks, i wasted two hours last night trying to get a vm passthrough to work for mining and i wish i'd thought of checking docker.

Running fine on my 1650 super 4gb, hashrate of 40 at 80w.

I love the idea of mining on a slim docker instead of resource hog VM. i'm about to try this out my self and if it goes really good get some risers on my unraid server. this is awesome.

[MacOS GPU passthrough issues on New AMD X570 Build]

Any luck on this yet? I'm having the exactly same problem with a NVIDIA Corporation GK110B [GeForce GTX TITAN Black] (rev a1) on my top slot with MAC bigsur. I did look it up and it looks compatible on the site mentioned above.  I did dump the vbios and checked it on a separate VM (windows10) and finally got that working. So I was very hopeful that when I tried the MacOS it would work. 

[Intel 9th Gen GPU + AMD RX5700 XT GPU. Possible for Plex container to use iGPU for transcoding and a Windows 10 VM to use AMD GPU for gaming at the same time?]

On 4/20/2021 at 4:12 AM, snolly said:

Nope, it didn't. I managed to sell it and bought an NVidia 1050 ti Card instead. I don't like using custom unraid versions and patched kernels. I am hearing that 6700XT does not suffer from the reset bug, so when and if GPUs become reasonally priced again I might buy a flaghip GPU again.

Any idea if the 6700xt would work with macinthebox or MacOS hackintosh? I'm trying to put together a compatible hardware list before i pull the trigger on parts.