
A running CHR instance will indicate the time when it has to access the account server to renew its license. It is possible to transfer a perpetual license to another CHR instance. Perpetual is a lifetime license (buy once, use forever). To get the free trial license, you have to have an account on as all license management is done there. The 60-day free trial license is available for all paid license levels. VMWare Fusion / Workstation and ESXi 6.5.To make a new trail system, you need to make a fresh installation and reconfigure RouterOS. However, you are allowed to license both systems individually. Please note that running CHR systems can be cloned and copied, but the copy will be aware of the previous trial period, so you cannot extend your trial time by making a copy of your CHR. The default user is 'admin', without a password Use the previously downloaded image file as a virtual disk drive.


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.

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.
