{"id":5454,"date":"2023-08-26T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2023-08-26T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T19:21:38","slug":"how-to-install-mikrotik-routeros-on-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-install-mikrotik-routeros-on-virtualbox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Mikrotik RouterOS on VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


Note that there are a couple of limitations of using the Cloud Hosted Router (CHR). The main issue is that the default license doesn’t allow for more than 1Mbps on each interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/help.mikrotik.com\/docs\/display\/ROS\/Cloud+Hosted+Router%2C+CHR#CloudHostedRouter,CHR-CHRLicensing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download the VDI version of CHR from the Mikrotik downloads page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/mikrotik.com\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mikrotik has instructions for installing CHR in VirtualBox, so this post is more of just a summary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/wiki.mikrotik.com\/wiki\/Manual:CHR_VirtualBox_installation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Create a VM with Type Linux, Version Other Linux (64-bit)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. While setting up the VM, select the VDI downloaded from Mikrotik as the virtual disk.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Start the VM and login with admin for the username and nothing for the password.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The easiest way to spin up more vm’s to right click on the VM and Clone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Note that there are a couple of limitations of using the Cloud Hosted Router (CHR). The main issue is that the default license doesn’t allow for more than 1Mbps on each interface. https:\/\/help.mikrotik.com\/docs\/display\/ROS\/Cloud+Hosted+Router%2C+CHR#CloudHostedRouter,CHR-CHRLicensing Download the VDI version of CHR from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,669,39],"tags":[1568,301,128,876,388,786,40,42,176,1569],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikrotik","category-networking-3","category-virtualization","tag-chr","tag-mikrotik","tag-networking-2","tag-router","tag-routeros","tag-vbox","tag-virtualbox","tag-virtualization-2","tag-vm","tag-x86"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}