We provide 4 different virtual disk images to choose from. Warning: We do not recommend using the E1000 network interface if better synthetic interface options are available on a specific Hypervisor! How to Install a virtual RouterOS system with CHR images Note: SCSI controller Hyper-V and ESX is usable just for secondary disks, system image must be used with IDE controller!

Network: Virtio, E1000, vmxnet3 (optional).

Network: Network adapter, Legacy Network adapter.

Disk: IDE, VMware paravirtual SCSI, LSI Logic SAS, LSI Logic Parallel.

Usable Network and Disk interfaces on various hypervisors: Warning: Hypervisors that provide paravirtualization are not supported.

Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008r2, 2012 and Windows 10 (Only Generation 1 Hyper-V virtual machine is supported at the moment).

CHR has been tested on the following platforms: Note: We recommend allocating at least 1024MiB of RAM for CHR instances. You can get an approximate number by using the following formula: The minimum required RAM depends on interface count and CPU count.

Disk: 128MB disk space for the CHR virtual hard drive (Max: 16GB).

Host CPU: 64-bit with virtualization support.Package version: RouterOS v6.34 or newer.CHR has full RouterOS features enabled by default but has a different licensing model than other RouterOS versions. It supports the x86 64-bit architecture and can be used on most of the popular hypervisors such as VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM, and others.

Of course RouterOS has a multitude of supported network interfaces, including the latest 10 Gigabit ethernet cards, 802.11a/b/g/n wireless cards and 3G modems.Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version intended for running as a virtual machine. You need at least 64MB of disk space to install RouterOS, which will format your partition and become the default operating system of the device it’s in. RouterOS supports installation on various storage devices such as IDE, SATA and USB drives, such as HDDs, CF and SD cards, SDD disks and more. You can run it on the latest and greatest Intel motherboards and use the newest multicore CPUs.

RouterOS is now built upon the Linux v2.6 kernel and supports multi-core and multi-CPU computers (SMP).

RouterOS is the operating system provided with MikroTik RouterBOARD devices, but it can also be installed on PCs and other X86 compatible hardware devices, like embedded boards and miniITX systems. ControllerLvl5 - MikroTik Controller (level 5) license

Routeros license level 5