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How to install Mikrotik in
Sun VirtualBox
Goal : In the future You can install Mikrotik in Sun VirtualBox as good
Materials
IA32 Hardware & Software requirements
CPU and motherboard – advanced 4th generation (core frequency 100MHz or
more), 5th generation (Intel Pentium, Cyrix 6X86, AMD K5 or comparable) or
newer uniprocessor (multi-processor systems are not supported) Intel IA-32 (i386)
compatible architecture with PCI local bus.
RAM – minimum 32 MiB, maximum 1 GiB; 64 MiB or more recommended
Non-volatile storage medium – standard ATA/IDE interface controller and drive
(SCSI and USB controllers and drives are not supported; RAID controllers that
require additional drivers are not supported; SATA is only supported in legacy
access mode) with minimum of 64 Mb space; Flash and Microdrive devices may
be connected using an adapted with ATA interface.
Sun VirtualBox
Mikrotik 5.9.iso
You can get various RouterBoard on the official website

2. So, before install Mikrotik on Real hardware, I want to explore on Virtual environment. I
will use Sun VirtualBox but you can use Vmware Workstation on Windows or linux
Systems.
Methode:
1st Step Create a Virtual Machine
Open Virtual Box & Click on New
Click on Next
Enter name of Virtual OS (as you wish) ex: “Hamdan” & select operating system
type ( as you wish) ex: “Other – Other/Unknown”.
Klik on next

3. Enter amount of RAM (64 MB is sufficient for Demo, you can increase it to 1GB)
Click on Next ( No need to change the values)
Click on create new hard disk
Click on next

4. Click on finish
Finally We have created a Virtual Machine of Mikrotik

5. 2nd step Install Mikrotik
Note: Before start Machine go to Settings-> Network -> Select Network Adapter (If you
have working interface LAN / WLAN then you can choose Bridge if you don’t have then
Select host only)
Start the Virtual Machine in VirtualBox Home with click on play button
Follow the Wizard & click on next

6. Select installation media (Physical Disk / ISO file) You can download ISO image
from Mikrotik official website. Here We use mikrotik-5.9.iso. and then choose the
target which you’ll be installed.

7. Finally click on show for execution
Select packages & press i to install & follow instructions

8. It will format the HDD & automatically install the Mikrotik.
Congratulations you have installed Mikrotik but before enter to reboot remove the
Media or ISO image.
Now you can access OS by the console, but if you are not familiar with CLI (Command
Line Interface) then you can use Mikrotik Graphical tool named Winbox.
You can Download it from official Mikrotik Site at http://www.mikrotik.co.id
but there is problem, OS doesn’t have any ip so you can accessby the MAC.
Run the Winbox & click on marked button
It is prompting you to 2 connection, just click on MAC Address
Enter user name : admin & Password : Block
Connect

9. If you getting any problem then you can assign IP Address to the OS or want to connect
Winbox by the IP
Go to Virtual Machine Cosole
Enter User name : admin & Password is blank so enter
First of all check the interfaces
[admin@Mikrotik]>interface print
It will show ether1 as interface, now assign IP Address to interface

10. [admin@Mikrotik]>ip address add address=192.168.1.50/24 interface=ether1
(* If you are using bridge interface and you physical interface in the 192.168.1.0/24
network then you can assign this ip. If you selected Host-only Interface then assign
192.168.56.101/24 as IP because in the Virtaulbox host-Only adapters works in this
network.)

11. Now again as well as last connect the Winbox by the IP address
This is Winbox GUI Interface.
Congratulations you have installed & access the Fresh Mikrotik OS.
Ok, finally we have finished install mikrotik on virtualbox then you can try all of the step
by step following the text. I hope you will get a little help about installation of mikrotik
OS.
Thank You Very Much….!!! 