Plotman Chia on WSL for Windows 10

[byeuji]

Hi everyone,

After getting Plotman running on my linux server for farming Chia, I wanted to see if I could get plotman running on my Windows 10 machines as well, so I could benefit from the same optimizations Plotman offers on Linux.

I managed to get it running on two different Windows machines with very different hardware by running Ubuntu 18.04 on the Windows Subsystem for Linux!
Here are the steps I followed:

Standalone file: chia_plotman_WSL_win10_public.txt

File contents:

WSL 2 for Win10
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Optional (but useful! I might stop using putty): Terminal for Windows
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/get-started

Python 3.7
https://gist.github.com/chandr3sh/8e63613689312dd6882b1d5791742db5

`sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install python3.7-minimal
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.6 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.7 2
sudo update-alternatives --config python3
Choose "2"

These additional steps were required:
	sudo apt-get install python-apt
	cd /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
	sudo ln -s apt_pkg.cpython-{36m,37m}-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install --user pipenv

echo "PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
nano ~/.bashrc
	The next command has issues with Windows parentheses, so the PATH value needs to be quoted in this file before running source
	Add quotes around PATH on last line, so that it looks like
	PATH='/home [...]'
	Instead of PATH=/home [...]
source ~/.bashrc`

Install Chia
https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/INSTALL#ubuntudebian

`cd ~
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
git clone https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain.git -b latest --recurse-submodules
cd chia-blockchain
sh install.sh
. ./activate
chia init
chia keys delete_all
chia keys add
	Paste your mnemonic`

Install Plotman
https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman#installation
pip install --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman@main plotman config generate

Make folders for Plotman logs
mkdir ~/chia mkdir ~/chia/logs

Optional: Map a network drive to a drive letter (Z:/, Y:/, etc. -- I will use Z:/ in this example)
Optional: Mount network drive in WSL
sudo mkdir /mnt/z sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add line to end:
Z: /mnt/z drvfs defaults 0 0
Mount the drive:
sudo mount -a

Configure Plotman
nano ~/.config/plotman/plotman.yaml

Ensure you're still in venv.
If not in venv: . ~/chia-blockchain/./activate

Run Plotman
plotman interactive

I hope this helps others. I'd love to hear what people think about the method.

I'm managing to put out about 8 plots a day per computer using my gaming machine and laptop by writing over a 10gbit local network to my Chia server (so I don't wear out my gaming hardware, but can still dedicate CPU cycles), while configuring plotman not to use all my gaming PC CPU resources.

I love that I can also pause Plotman so I can get all my resources when I launch a game or w/e.