Network adapters must be vmxnet3 or E1000‌. Some special requeriments apply depending on the subyacent hypervisor.

And others, like Xen, but I haven’t tested it yet.

It runs on x86-64-bit architecture and can be deployed on most hypervisors such as: Mine took a couple of minutes to format 16MiB or so of flash.MikroTik Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version intended to be used as a virtual machine instance.

Once you click ‘install’, it will appear to freeze on ‘formatting disk’ for some time.

After booting your device with the reset button held down, release it only once the ‘ACT’ LED stops flashing, then wait for it to appear as a device in Netinstall.Finally, in Netinstall, you’ll need to set a different IP address again (eg.In Virtualbox, you’ll need to set your virtual network interface to bridge with your physical ethernet adapter, with promiscuous mode set to ‘allow all’.10.1.1.5) in the same subnet, with the same subnet mask and a gateway. Similarly, in Windows, you’ll need to set a different IP address (eg.(It’s fine to leave it to auto-negotiate speed, though.) In Mac OS, you’ll need to set your ethernet interface to a workable IP address and subnet mask, eg 10.1.1.6/24.This took me some head-scratching before I remembered: make sure you disable Windows’ built-in firewall/s, for private and public networks – nothing worked until I did this.Since this added a few additional layers of very un-wanted hassle at a quite stressful time, I thought I would leave some hints here – tips and screenshots below. I recently ‘bricked’ my Mikrotik HAP AC Lite router – the router didn’t have enough room on its flash memory to install an update, but – in an unexpected turn of events – tried to apply the firmware update anyway, and became un-bootable.įortunately, Mikrotik supply a bit of software (‘Netinstall’) which is able to re-flash the devices using BOOTP, but this software won’t run in Wine (it requires root to bind to the low BOOTP port, yada yada).įor Mac users, this means it’s really only possible to run it in a VM (in my case, in Windows 8.1, in Virtualbox on Mac OS 10.11 El Cap).

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