Hello jonesjr, thank you for this long reply!
I’ve already re-done the plotter & farmer VM’s several times, one to learn & get better / faster at setting this stuff up, two I enjoy this. I don’t think completely starting over would be the smartest thing, otherwise I could end up right back here & not know why. Or I could end up re-doing everything completely & find out it wasn’t even something in the installation / setup.
I was starting to get into Chia with 18TB external drives, but then I came across Digital Spaceports videos on YT. So I followed what he figured out, instead of re-inventing a new setup & bought a Dell R720XD to get started with. I followed his setup in Proxmox & what he did & that’s how I am here. I did not have any experience with Proxmox before this, only Hyper V, which is fine for my Internet marketing business. I don’t do IT for a living, I just keep my office network running. I have Ubuntu Desktop running on the Farmer VM. Ubuntu Server I think gets you faster plot times, so why not… Speed & compressed plots was what got me interested in this setup in the beginning.
“lxc container in a fraction of the time with a template and have your shell with direct access to hardware resources… that alone could fix your issue.” I have no experience with that yet. I tried setting up a Windows 11 VM, but the Gigahorse Plotter just would not run. It would start, but right at the last step, it would just sit there & not start creating plots. I saw several people talk about how much faster Linux was at creating plots so I switched my setup & got into Proxmox.
“it puzzles me because a major perk to running a vm in proxmox is that you get the gui… but you chose no gui… when your admittedly new… if your taking this seriously you should of started with Ubuntu desktop…” Again, I was just following Digital Spaceports setup (He even advises against using the GUI / Desktop for some reason), which I’m not at all attached to his setup or what I currently have. I’m completely open to redoing the Plotter or Farmer VM’s in another way. The TrueNAS VM is working really well, so that one I want to keep it as it is.
I was taking backups at key points, before proceeding & making more changes. I ran into two issues so far, where even after restoring the backup, the error persisted (Which should have been fixed I thought). I just deleted the VM & did it again. It’s one way to get better at doing this, so it didn’t bother me too much. Although I have been spending a lot of time with this & I need to get back to focusing on clients… At this point I just want to find a setup that works, creates the compressed plots & starts to farm them. I will try taking snapshots now insteaf of backups though, again this is totally new to me in Proxmox. In Hyper V, I jsut shut the VM down, disconnect the Hard Drive, copy it somewhere for a backup & then start it back up. I know Hyper V is limited, but its been perfect for what I’ve needed in my office network & keeping that more simple is a main goal.
“id try in software some simple tests. in this order pinging, port knocking, finding the route in my router, making sure everything was open, disabling firewalls, contacting isp, configuring networking in proxmox(wich must be done)… both ways from in proxmox and inside the vm. test in a container the config.” This is where I’m up to now. One of my clients is an IT company & they assist me when things are out of my scope with the network stuff. I am not familar with “Cockpit” but I’m open to learning more new things to figure this out.
I have the OG Chia client runnning on another computer, creating plots the turtle way, even with a Threadripper 3960 & blazing fast SSD & ram.
“the best part of proxmox is that you can start over what your doing very very easily. using templates, history commands, snapshots, replication, high availability, backups. all for the purpose of making problems llike your facing trivial. take advantage of proxmoxs full feature set.” I am beginning to get familiar with doing this like this & developing ways to make myself more efficient.
I’ve just used the default network settings, so far every VM I’ve setup has been able to reach the Internet.
Gigahorse allows you to create compressed plots, which with C8 compression are around 71GB. So I can get a lot more plots onto the same drive space than uncompressed plots. The normal Chia client can’t run compressed plots yet, so you have to use the Gigahorse farmer if you’re going to go with compressed plots…
I will go through what you wrote more though & begin thinking about how I can adjust my setup better & hopefully get these compressed plots working soon.
Thank you!