Hopefully I will be able to answer you over the weekend, I will be setting up my VM to mine Steem as well. Just know that the Hard Fork is on Tuesday. I am not sure what we would need to do then.

And nobody seems to be interested, as per the overwhelming attention my earlier post received: https://steemit.com/mining/@grahnite/mining-and-the-upcoming-hard-fork

Maybe you will be luckier.