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. Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version intended for running as a virtual machine.

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