Xathrya Sabertooth

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 08:33 PM PDT

Mikrotik, a Linux-based operating system designed for router. This operating system is the OS that powering proprietary hardware Mikrotik RouterBoard. If the previous article we discuss about how to install Mikrotik OS on x86 / PC on Virtual Machine, in this article we will discuss about how to upgrade OS. Specifically, the method we use is manually fetch the upgrade package.

The tools we need use in this article, are:

Oracle VirtualBox 4.26 (you can also use the latest version)
MikrotikOS 5.18

Preparation & Explanation

There are some condition should be applied before doing this method. The machine should connected to internet directly, no firewall which block download access. At least, make sure your routerboard can download a package or ping to the world.

The version we will upgrade to is 6.1 from any version.

Process

Boot up Mikrotik and input your credentials. The default Mikrotik use username admin without password.

Write this into terminal:

  /tool fetch url="http://download2.mikrotik.com/routeros/6.1/routeros-x86-6.1.npk" mode=http

Wait until the download finished. You should see “status: finished” when it is done.

Now restart your Mikrotik to begin auto upgrade.

  /system reboot

When you relogin to your machine, you should see that the machine now have version 6.1. Congratulation

Installing Mikrotik RouterOS on VirtualBox

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 02:47 AM PDT

Mikrotik, a Linux-based operating system designed for router. This operating system is the OS that powering proprietary hardware Mikrotik RouterBoard. Mikrotik OS also can be installed to x86-based computers, which will be discussed on this article.

In this article, we will discuss about how to install MikrotikOS to VirtualBox. For this purpose I use:

Oracle VirtualBox 4.26 (you can also use the latest version)
MikrotikOS 5.18

The method covered here is generic, which can be applied to other version of Mikrotik as well.

Obtain the Material

Go to Mikrotik’s website and download the appropriate image for PC/x86.

You might not find the version 5.18 on the site as Mikrotik display the latest version, different version we have on this article. However like I said, you can use higher version and adjust the instructions listed in this article.

If you are interested, I have the ISO file which you can download here. Make sure you have 7zip to open the archive. The archive use .xar extension but you should rename it to .7z extension first.

Virtual Machine Preparation

Before installing Mikrotik RouterOS, we should create a virtual machine.

Create a virtual machine using Operating System Linux and the version is Linux 2.6
Adjust the memory for your need. For example, I will use 256 MB memory. (you should minimum use this)
Create a new hard drive with VDI file type and use dynamically allocated. Set the storage to 512MB.

Now we do preparation before installation began.

Open menu setting and navigate to Storage. Here, move the existing VDI image (under SATA) to IDE and load the ISO.

Then navigate to Network. Enable at least two adapter. One for WAN (Wide Area Network) and the other one LAN (Local Area Network).

Installation

Boot up the virtual machine. There you should see the image is loaded and then some list occurred. As we install it on top of Virtual Machine, basic modules is suffiecient.

Press ‘i’ if you are ready. The installation will use all disk space, which is OK for us.

Remove the ISO image and press ENTER to reboot the virtual machine

There mikrotik will ask credential. As it is our first time using this image, use the default username admin without password.

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