CHR: all about licensing

Running MikroTik RouterOS in a virtual machine is easy! See our previous video how to install it, in this video - what is the free license, what is the limitation, and how to obtain a full license. Is your Virtual machine running slow, just 1 mbit? Maybe it's a license issue. Watch till the end and see how to do it properly.

[@The_John_Galt]

Please never do subscription licensing for your products! It separates you from everyone

[@video-bv3sj]

This is the most underrated comment here. All the industry is pushing subscriptions, you are our favorite because the lack of subscriptions. Please don’t change!

[@mikrotik]

We don’t and have no plan to

[@drumaddict89]

@@mikrotik a million thanks toward MT for that!

[@Supermunch2000]

I've been using Mikrotik for the past 12 years and loving it but only now has it finally dawned on me how useful VM installs of RouterOS can be.
Thanks Normunds!

[@drumaddict89]

license management done DAMN RIGHT!!!

[@jebw]

This is a very good clear presentation of CHR licensing.
Thankyou, Normis.

[@sergiobeltrao]

The more I learn about MikroTik, the more I love it.

[@altmindo]

word of caution - never press the "Generate new ID" - you wont be able to register the device with new id in your mikrotik account(even with a paid license) and you would need to do a full CHR reinstall.

[@Andrew_Thrift]

Great pacing, very easy to digest the information.
Thanks Normunds !

[@mikrotik]

You are welcome!

[@AliNetWorker]

Thanks for allow using chr even after trial expiration

[@hectorchimal7157]

Thank you!

[@santiagosaldarriaga1418]

ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE

[@JonasHeinz]

You Guys forgot to Blur the Price at 5:55. Can i now have a License for that Price cause i told you 🥺?

[@karimbabni9272]

Febens Lordeus Thank you!

[@sberry25]

Thanks for the info! Is there a route to license CHR where access to the Mikrotik license server is not possible?
Or in this case is it best to just use the x86 iso install with 'traditional' licensing?

[@mikrotik]

Better would be to connect the VM to insternet, license it, then disconnect it. Then you can move the VM to other place.
ISO has other drawbacks, like different drivers and less RAM support.

[@tgiannakarios]

Normunds
if i have a P1 Perpetual and i want to upgrade to P10 Perpetual, before i upgrade i must transfer my P1 to another system ID or else i will loose it??

[@mikkio5371]

Beautiful for the explanation. Can this be carried out on vmware .

[@wojciechkonowrocki37]

After the 60 days period, would I only stop getting updates, or will the upload speed on the interfaces be limited to 1mbit also?

[@mikrotik]

Only updates are no longer allowed

[@sesalamedas1104]

when i insert it?

[@SiBex_ovh]

IP Cloud, means MikroTik DDNS is limited in this version !. 1:29 "Speed is only a limitation"

[@mikrotik]

No. How is cloud dns related to CHR?

[@SiBex_ovh]

@@mikrotik Yes, because: ip cloud set ddns-enabled=yes
failure: Cloud services not supported on CHR free licence

[@mikrotik]

Of course, but that is not limited by license. WiFi and LTE interfaces are naturally also not supported. But also, not due to license limitation.

[@SiBex_ovh]

@@mikrotik Ohh, I was wrong thinking that license enable IP Cloud - this feature is just unsupported in CHR... Thanks for clarification.

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

So all I need to do is add 20,000 interfaces?

[@mikrotik]

Hm. But why?

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

@@mikrotik To get my 20gbps throughput

[@mikkio5371]

​@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh😂😂😂 u are funny.

[@gerooq]

good luck adding....

[@MrCrusayder]

У меня только два вопроса.
Первый Как такое может быть? Я только неделю назад себе на CHR поднял VPN сервис, а сейчас дополнительно установил на сервер ещё один CHR прокладкой. И тут это видео в рекомендациях!..O_o
Второе Что это за интересное устройство лежит на столе у ведущего?

[@mikrotik]

On the table there is a MikroTik "LtAP" router.

[@boumarc]

talking about licensing why don't you respect the spirit of the GNU General Public License and share the entire source code of RouterOS which is mostly based on free open-source software such as Linux ?

[@mikrotik]

We do! Have you tried asking or looking for it?

[@boumarc]

​@@mikrotik yes I did try, and after several repeated requests and quite a bit of time all I got were a set of useless patches. If you respected the spirit of the GPL, which is about software freedom, I would be able to download corresponding source code for every RouterOS release, and be able to modify and rebuild usable binaries out of it which would be useful in many cases. For example, I recently encountered a pppoe incompatibility, and asked support for a fix, but they refused. The problem would be trivial to fix if proper source code would be available.