@J_McEvoy you need to do that as root user… sudo and it’s after you copy the /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml file after you re-installed k3s.
@J_McEvoy can you paste the output from kubectl describe pods metrics-server -n kube-system, maybe send it to a file and scp it back to your local host to post all the text here.
I found the problem and managed to resolve it, it turns out i used the ip you put in your instructions above so it was messing with things so i ended up putting in the ip of my vm and it worked a charm. Rancher is now up but i dont know how to access it, if i run my local ip for eg “https://192.168..” it comes up with a 404 error, any ideas?
@J_McEvoy ahh that info was going to be my next question… good deal 
So I suspect the hostname you set, I normally add it to the /etc/hosts file on the vm and local host. Is the vm running a firewall?
no firewall, but is that what i do add it to my hosts? because all i wanna do is use it locally for now
@J_McEvoy what did you use in the --set hostname= part of the helm rancher install;
for my test I used kermit.homelinux.org with the 192.168.10.20 k3s install. So that’s what I have on the localhost’s /etc/hosts;
192.168.10.20 kermit.homelinux.org kermit
@J_McEvoy ahh at least you have it all sorted now!. What desktop/laptop operating system are you using locally to access the vm? I would look at installing rancher-desktop and using that for any development if you have some spare cpu/ram on it.
@malcolmlewis1 I run a proxmox server on a pc, then I use my gaming laptop to access the vm remotely through ssh or web gui, I was hoping to cluster it all so i can have it runnin through a few vms and my raspberry pi as one of the nodes, but I have no idea if I can have a master machine vm as it where and have my pi as a node.
I was gonna ask if you’d be able to help me setup something like that as I need assistance wid nodes and master, I was hoping to run my docker containers through them all. If you can help it would be appreciated. So sorry for taking your time and also for the long paragraph
@J_McEvoy sure that’s possible, you might want to join https://community.suse.com/ as there are resources there that will help and some blogs on how it’s done. I can PM you an invite if wanting to join?
So I’m guessing you’re turning down my offer lol what does suse do
@J_McEvoy nope, not at all 
They are the Rancher owners, SUSE Linux Enterprise and also the primary openSUSE sponsor. The Community is focused education, events, free courses, the rancher Academy etc. So a lot of free resources and blogs, as well as folks asking kubernetes questions etc that don’t hang out here…
I had a look at there website last night, do they OS’s as well?, what I’m wanting to do is have 4 machines running 1 master 3 nodes then have docker containers across them so when one goes down the other kicks in to back it up if that makes sense