Otherwise, the system will not know that you have the license on your account. If the CHR instance cannot renew the license, it will behave as if the trial period has expired and will not allow an upgrade of RouterOS to a newer version.Īfter licensing a running test system, you must manually run the license/system renewal function from the CHR to activate it. A running CHR instance will indicate when it needs to access the account server to renew its license.

It is possible to transfer a perpetual license to another CHR instance. Perpetual is a lifetime license (buy once, use forever). To obtain the free trial license, you must have an account on as all license administration is done there. The 60-day free trial license is available for all paid license levels.

p-perpetual-unlimited p-unlimited perpetual-unlimited.

To create a new trial system, you must perform a new installation and reconfigure RouterOS. However, you can license both systems individually. Note that running CHR systems can be cloned and copied, but the copy will recognize the previous trial period, so you cannot extend your trial time by making a copy of your CHR. The default user is 'admin', no password.

Use the previously downloaded image file as a virtual disk drive.

Download the virtual disk image for your hypervisor.Note that these are disk images only and you cannot simply run them. Mikrotik offers 4 different virtual disk images to choose from. Installing a virtual RoutrOS system with CHR images Warning: hypervisors that provide for virtualization are not supported. Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008r2, 2012 and Windows 10 (only generation 1 Hyper-V virtual machine is supported at this time).RAM = 128 + ĬHR has been tested on the following platforms: You can get an approximate number using the following formula: The minimum RAM required depends on the number of interfaces and the CPU. Disk: 128 MB disk space for CHR virtual hard disk (Max.: 16 GB).Host CPU: 64-bit with virtualization support.Package version: RouterOS v6.34 or later.CHR has all RouterOS features enabled by default, but has a different licensing model than other RouterOS versions. It supports 64-bit x86 architecture and can be used on most popular hypervisors such as VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM and others. Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a version of RouterOS designed to run as a virtual machine.

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