How to Install Mikrotik RouterOS on VirtualBox

Posted on August 26, 2023 by admin

Note that there are a couple of limitations of using the Cloud Hosted Router (CHR). The main issue is that the default license doesn’t allow for more than 1Mbps on each interface.

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Cloud+Hosted+Router%2C+CHR#CloudHostedRouter,CHR-CHRLicensing

Download the VDI version of CHR from the Mikrotik downloads page.

https://mikrotik.com/download

Mikrotik has instructions for installing CHR in VirtualBox, so this post is more of just a summary.

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CHR_VirtualBox_installation

Create a VM with Type Linux, Version Other Linux (64-bit)
While setting up the VM, select the VDI downloaded from Mikrotik as the virtual disk.
Start the VM and login with admin for the username and nothing for the password.

The easiest way to spin up more vm’s to right click on the VM and Clone.

VirtualBox – VERR_NEM_VM_CREATE_FAILED

Posted on July 6, 2020 by admin

Looks to be an issue if you have Windows HyperV enabled.

Search for and Open up the “Turn Windows features on or off” and make sure “Windows Hypervisor Platform” is unchecked and hit OK to apply it.

Reboot computer and launch VM

https://superuser.co/questions/1442766/virtualbox-fails-to-start-with-verr-nem-vm-create-failed

VirtualBox window and menu scaling/text incorrect

Posted on November 9, 2019 by admin

Sometimes the scaling can be wrong on a VM if you plug in a different monitor. You can fix the issue by opening up the location of the VirtualBox executable, right click on it, go to properties > Compatabiltiy > Enable Program DPI > Set to DPI to the Display of my main display when “I open this program”

Save by hitting OK

“C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox”

Install VirtualBox Guest Addition for Kali Linux

Posted on August 2, 2019 by admin

Boot up the virtual machince

Insert the “Guest Additions CD Image…” from the Devices menu

In the VM, open up Files/Nautilus or Dolphin and find the CD. Open a terminal in the same directory and execute the auto run script

sudo sh autorun.sh

It should pop up another window to install the guest additions. After it is installed, you’ll need to reboot the VM for the new changes to take effect.

esxtop not displaying properly and is not interactive

Posted on October 15, 2018 by admin

Ran into an issue where esxtop was basically displaying a bunch of CSV data that was hard to make sense of in a terminal.

From reading here https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2001448

It appears that the issue is that the environment TERM variable is not specified.

echo $TERM

returns nothing.

To fix, specify the terminal to use

TERM=xterm

To get a list of terminals available, run the following

find /usr/share/terminfo -type f

Install VMware tools on Ubuntu VM

Posted on August 3, 2018 by admin

In Ubuntu the simplest way to install the VMware tools is through apt.

sudo apt-get install open-vmware-tools

Shouldn’t have to do anything else.

You can also install the tools by hitting Install VMware tools from either the web UI, or vShpere. This will mount a virtual CD on the OS, you can then copy the contents to a local directory in the vm. You can then proceed to install them by extracting the tar file with

tar -xzf VMware*

cd into the new directory

cd vmware*

and run

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions for Fedora 22

Posted on July 9, 2015 by admin

Install kernel headers, dkms, etc

dnf -y kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms gcc gcc-c++

Reboot the VM

reboot

Mount the Guest Additions by going to menu > Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image… or you can hit “Host + D”.

The Host key is typically the Right Ctrl(On Windows) or CMD(On OS X) key.

Installing the Guest Additions

Via the GUI

Mount the Guest Additions from your file browser, and then launch the “VBoxLinuxAdditions.run”.

You will need root privileges, so either launch your file browser as root, or drag and drop the “VBoxLinuxAdditions.run”, into a root terminal and hit Enter.

Via Command Line

mkdir /tmp/vbox
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /tmp/vbox
sudo /tmp/vbox/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

If you run into any errors, try ejecting, and remounting the Guest Additions cd.

How to Install VirtualBox on Fedora in 10 Steps

Posted on April 26, 2013 by admin

1. Open a terminal and change to the root user

su -

2. Then cd into the following directory

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

3. Install wget.

yum install wget

4. Download the repo files with wget.

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

5. Install the dependencies.

yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

6. Update your computer.

yum update

7. Install VirtualBox.

yum install VirtualBox-4.2

8. Add the VirtualBox user to the vboxusers group

usermod -a -G vboxusers user_name

9. Reboot your computer.

reboot

10. Enjoy. If you run into problems try the following.

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Note:
I have created a script that will do all this for you, download here. All you need to do is the following 3 commands.

cd /pathto/fedora-vb-installer.sh
chmod +x fedora-vb-installer.sh
sudo ./fedora-vb-installer.sh

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