Compile Monero 0.9 on Whonix-Workstation for VirtualBox

Monero and Whonix are tools that privacy centric users can use as part of their privacy enhancing toolbox.

One problem with Monero is that, if you want to run full Monero node, your IP address will be exposed to others in the Monero network. And this, might be not ideal situation for some.

One way to overcome this problem is to run the node through Tor. And this can be done having the Monero node running inside the Whonix Workstation.

Alternatively, one can use Tor through torsocks as explained here.

Preparation

Assuming that you have Whonix setup into your VirtualBox, the first thing that should be done is to increase Whonix-Workstation's ram. The default size is 768 MB, and this is not enough for compilation. I usually set it up to 2 GB, but I think 1GB should also be good.

VBoxManage modifyvm Whonix-Workstation --memory 2048

Compilation

Start your Whonix-Workstation and do the following in the workstation.

# install dependencies sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libboost1.55-all-dev miniupnpc libunbound-dev graphviz doxygen liblmdb-dev libssl-dev pkg-config # download the latest bitmonero source code from github git clone https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero.git # go into bitmonero folder cd bitmonero/ # compile make release-static-32

After successful compilation, the Monero binaries should be located in ./build/release/bin/

I usually move the binaries into /opt/bitmonero/ folder, so this can be done as follows:

sudo mkdir /opt/bitmonero sudo mv -v ./build/release/bin/* /opt/bitmonero/

To start now the only think left is to start the Monero daemon and let it download the blockchain and synchronize with the Monero network. After that, you can run your the simplewallet .

Please note that downloading the full blockchain will probably be slow. So it would be better to download it independently and then copy to the default Monero folder, i.e., ~/.bitmonero/lmdb/

# launch the Monero node daemon and let it synchronize with the Monero network /opt/bitmonero/bitmonerod # launch the Monero wallet #/opt/bitmonero/simplewallet

Example screenshot

bitmonerod daemon and simplewallet in Whonix Workstation:

How can you help?

Constructive criticism, code and website edits are always good. They can be made through github.

Some Monero are also welcome: