Mikrotik RouterOS on EDIS KVM
To install Mikrotik on an EDIS Global VPS, you’ll need to adjust a few hardware settings first, after which the installation will run smoothly.

Login to your VPS Management Portal
Locate your VPS in the Services tab
Head to KVM Settings (button)
Change Disk driver to IDE
Change Network Driver to E100
Cold-Boot your VPS

We learned from clients that the upgrade procedure from Mikrotik v6 to v7 seems to be broken. Clients were left with instances not being able to boot after the version upgrade from Mikrotik 6.x to Mikrotik 7.x and error messages like
So far, the only known workaround is a fresh Mikrotik v7.x intallation.


If you want to give Mikrotik CHR a try, you can download images from the official Mikrotik download page. To make life even easier for you, we converted the cloud image available on the Mikrotik website into a .qcow2 file download chr-7.13.2.qcow2 which can directly be used with our automated Cloud-Init installer 😎

Login to your VPS Management Portal
Locate your VPS in the Services tab
Head to KVM Settings (button)
Change Disk driver to IDE
Change Network Driver to E100
Click on Autoinstall OS (button)
Proceed to Custom Cloud-Init Images (tab)
Upload the .qcow2 file and proceed with the installation (pick any password)
you will see: Server Status: AUTOINSTALL IN PROGRESS it will change to: Server Status: RUNNING, AUTOINSTALL IN PROGRESS
The installation will take a couple of minutes!
Once the installer is done (Server Status: RUNNING), start a VNC session, start noVNC, click into the noVNC window (set focus) and finish the installation.
Mikrotik username: admin Mikrotik password: no password, leave field empty, just press Enter



