Urgent MikroTik RouterOS

[NikolaMarkovic]

Heloo friends,
From now I need to use RouterOS in VM instead on physical hardware. Boss give to me RouterOS for VmWare. Format .VMDK. I dont want to use VmWare So I must run this VM in Vbox.
Problem:
VmWare is stored as VMDK, and I try VmWare tool ( forgot name ) to convert it to VDI or OVF. It convert it to VDI but licence is gone, Then I try VboxManage tool to convert it, licence is also gone. I try attaching VMDK to Vmachine then exporting as OVF and then importing same disk also licence gone. I even try to open without starting machine and then exporting as ova/ovf then importing, this method give me error disk unaccessible. I must run it in VBox, any sugesstions what to do???
Thanx in advance

[BillG]

MicroTik RouterOS can be installed directly on a VirtualBox vm from the ISO file. That is the way I would go.

https://www.techonia.com/218/install-mi ... virtualbox

Or you can run a VirtualBox vm from a .vmdk virtual disk if you want to use the pre-installed version you have.

[NikolaMarkovic]

I have preinstalled version on disk. I dont have ISO. When I attach them on VM as VMDK it says that I have 24 Hours to test it. But when run in VmWare, licence key is there, and no worries about licence. What to do?

[mpack]

Were you under the impression that all VM platforms are the same? They are not. You'll have the same activation issues moving between VM platforms as you will between different PCs - because different PCs is exactly what they are.

Or perhaps you thought that if you preserved the container format (VMDK) then that would make the hardware look the same. Again, it doesn't. If you move a physical hard disk, of whatever make, into a new PC then yes the hard disk itself will work fine, but the software and OS it contains still sees a new PC.

[NikolaMarkovic]

O basicly there is no solution for my problem?

[BillG]

Apart from staying with VMWare, no. If the software is licensed to run in a VMWare vm and you run it in a VirtualBox vm instead, enough of the virtualised hardware is different to affect license conditions, as mpack stated.

[mpack]

O basicly there is no solution for my problem?

Of course there is. Just contact the people you bought the license from and ask to move your license to the new platform. This happens every day when people get a new PC, which is exactly the scenerio here I'm assuming.

[NikolaMarkovic]

Im examined this problem. There is no solution, Mikrotik RouterOS is engaged with disk volume ID number, each conversion or replacement change volume ID and trigger removing licence. I contacted them but they dont want talk with me

I dont know how VirtualBox work together with VmWare, if I bridge single integrated nic to booth hypervisors?

Damn, do VirtualBox team have plan to make T1 hypervisor... if this happen they will beat every single hypervisor solution

[scottgus1]

Boss give to me RouterOS for VmWare.

I contacted them but they dont want talk with me

It seems that the company you work for bought the license and the company would need to talk to Microtik. Make a case to your boss that Virtualbox will work better than VMware for you, then your boss might ask for the license change.

bridge single integrated nic to booth hypervisors

Should be possible to have VMware and Virtualbox use the same host network card. You cannot run VMware and Virtualbox at the same time, though. I doubt any attempts to merge or cross-connect network cards will get around this:

Mikrotik RouterOS is engaged with disk volume ID number

The devs don't reveal future plans, so we would have no idea when or if Virtualbox will be released as a type-1 hypervisor. That request has been made for over a decade, though, and it hasn't happened yet. The likelihood of a change in this direction seems slim.

[mpack]

The likelihood of a change in this direction seems slim.

Especially since (unless things have changed since I last checked) Oracle already has a type-1 hypervisor product called "Oracle VM" which is very much not free. I can't see them undercutting themselves.