License Questions

RouterOS General
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Hi,

i’m planning to run routeros inside a KVM. Mainly it will be a VPN endpoint. As i understand the routeros license is bound to the hdd. As the virtual hdd of a KVM is just a file i’m wonder how routeros handles such cases. For maintenance pr to scale up hardware, i’m used to move around my VMs between several servers. Will i run into issues with the license when i do such move of the VM?

The wiki tells: it’s possible to move the HDD to a different computer, so routeros don’t complain if the hardware changes. Does that mean i can add more ram,interfaces to my virtual maschine without any problems?


@Mikrotik btw it would be really nice if the demo version would not expire after 24h. In 24h it difficult to test a complex setup. I would like to do some test regarding performance, prof of concepts before i buy a license. A Week of demo time would really help and it should not break your license model.

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  1. if the image doesn’t change, license will not change
  2. yes, you can upgrade your RAM and interfaces
  3. 24h demo time is only uptime. you can test 3.5 hours per day and you will be able to run it for a week total.
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Thanks for the information. As i’m going to create virtual disks for those virtual routers i’m wondering what is a good disksize? As the license get invalid once the disk changes this value needs to be chosen wisely. I don’t want to wast space and on the other hand i don’t want to get problems if a version in the future will need more space. Any recommendations regarding the disksize?

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RouterOS works fine on 64MB. If you don’t plan to use proxy caching, logging to disk, or metarouter, 64-128MB is fine. Otherwise, you should be good with 512MB.