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.
it's working now .... or almost working ... just made a new post
If the last version is not working I will wait for your response