Firstly, if you do not have the Vmware workstation already installed, you need to do so. To successfully install the Mikrotik cloud OS on Eve-ng, you will need to do four things. You can go ahead and enter the IP address of your instance in a web browser and you should be presented with webfig.The Eve-ng community edition is a free cross-platform network simulator that allows network engineers to install, configure and test network devices from different manufacturers, thereby giving engineers the power to design and test complex labs on a virtual environment before they are deployed on the field.

Return to dashboard, select the Boot profile and reboot.

img file to /dev/sdb using dd if=chr-6.40.3.img of=/dev/sdb For CHR, use wget -no-check-certificate -4 .

Once in Rescue Mode, download your installation media and copy it to your Installer disk.

Reboot into Rescue Mode with your Installer disk mounted to /dev/sda (double-check this), and connect to your Linode using the Lish Console.

You can label the first Installer and the second Boot. For this you can allocate what’s left of your storage.

You can label the first Installer and allocate 200MB to it, and the second Boot. Create a new linode (that’s what VMs are called) on Linode.Note most of the info here was distilled from this link. Let’s get started…seriously this time :). There’s some limitation to the downloaded version, but you can unlock the full capability by getting a license. Available on the download site in various formats, you can install in 5 mins on your VirtualBox, VMWare, KVM VMs.

So a few years ago, Miktotik fulfilled the desires of the cloud-bound network admin by releasing the Cloud Hosted Router. Mikrotik is a versatile and affordable networking hardware and software vendor – hugely popular in Nigeria, and I’ve been tinkering, deploying, developing off of RouterOS’ API and everything in-between. This is more a scratchpad for my personal reference, and as nothing every really remains static in tech, don’t hesitate to point out any stale information you may find…so let’s get started. It’s just convenient hosting and that frees me from 99 problems I have to deal with. So, I’ve been using linode for most of my hosting these days – since I retired (in the process of selling) my HP ML110 server.

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