If the CHR instance will not be able to renew the license it will behave as if the trial period has ran out and will not allow an upgrade of RouterOS to a newer version.Īfter licensing a running trial system, you must manually run the /system license renew function from the CHR to make it active. It is possible to transfer a perpetual license to another CHR instance.Ī running CHR instance will indicate the time when it has to access the account server to renew it's license.

Perpetual is a lifetime license (buy once, use forever). To get the free trial license, you have to have an account on as all license management is done there.

VMWare Fusion / Workstation and ESXi 6.5Ħ0-day free trial license is available for all paid license levels.

To make a new trial system, you need to make a fresh installation and reconfigure RouterOS. However, you are allowed to license both systems individually. Please note that running CHR systems can be cloned and copied, but the copy will be aware of the previous trial period, so you cannot extend your trial time by making a copy of your CHR. Default user is 'admin', without password

Use previously downloaded image file as a virtual disk drive.

Download virtual disk image for your hypervisor.

Note that they are only disk images, and you can't simply run them. We provide 4 different virtual disk images to choose from. Warning: We do not recommend using E1000 network interface if better synthetic interface options are available on specific Hypervisor!

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.

System Requirements Minimal requirements: 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. 7.4 Using vlans on CHR in various HypervisorsĬloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version intended for running as a virtual machine.2.3 Usable Network and Disk interfaces on various hypervisors:.

2.2 CHR has been tested on the following platforms:.

X86 mikrotik