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I am new to bitcoin mining.
i have gui-miner, setup a slash mining account, and i have a VM Ware machine setup for mining.
i have my own reasons for using a VM Machine and not my own...
now whenever i open guiminer and click on start mining(given all valid fields and having setup mining worker as well), the miner says that nothing to mine on, exiting.
i do not have any OpenCL or any graphics card as it is a VM Machine.
can anyone help me on this...
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Currently, all mining software have GPU and CPU mining disabled by default. You're going to need to recompile from source and enable CPU/GPU mining to be able to mine with your CPU/GPU. You should be warned that this is not profitable in any way, shape, or form and that even on testnet, your CPU won't likely find a block for many hours.
That said, if you're determined to do it, get the source for bfgminer here: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
Compile with the --enable-cpumining flag and you should have a binary that lets you use the CPU.
do u have the complete command set and prerequisites for compiling...i am new to this open source compiling thing...:P – Fr_nkenstien – 2016-06-21T06:05:36.630
ps i have windows VM system...do i need a linux VM..?/ – Fr_nkenstien – 2016-06-21T06:17:13.697
1 The instructions are here: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/windows-build.txt This is not going to be simple on windows. It's easier on linux but you still need to know what you're doing.
3It is very unlikely you will make anything else than a loss mining bitcoin on a computer. GPUs are already pointless, let alone CPUs. – user36303 – 2016-06-17T09:26:41.353
1lolz...its out of curiosity rather than profit...after test environment...i can move to something more productive – Fr_nkenstien – 2016-06-17T09:28:19.433