Manual:CHR AWS installation

Tools required

To get CHR RouterOS running on Amazon AWS cloud at this moment, there are certain steps that you have to do to get this working from scratch.

• Virtual management software that works with ISOLINUX booter/installer on CHR image (KVM, VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation, VMWare Fusion, Hyper-V these tools are interchangeable);
• Tool to resize the image file prior the installation as default image is 64MB of size and in some cases, more storage is required (qemu-img, VMWare built-in tool, VirtualBox external tool);
• AWS API tools installed and configured (ec2-*).

Installation steps (long)

• Resize the image. After RouterOS is installed it will be much harder to change the available size

 qemu-img resize chr-6.34rc21.img +940M

• Import the image as a volume on your AWS. As a return you will get the volume ID.

 ec2-import-volume chr-6.34rc21.img -f raw -s 1 -b <bucket> -o <AKIAEXAMPLELALALA> -w <SECRETACCESSKEY > -z eu-west-1a

It is possible to follow the progress of the import.

 ec2-cancel-conversion-task <task id>

• Create snapshot. Correct volume ID will be availabe when previous command ends or from your AWS account

 ec2-create-snapshot vol-e3c74810

• Register AWS image as an AMI ec2-register -n CHR -s snap-a664a48e -d "6.34rc21" -a x86_64 --virtualization-type hvm

 ec2-register -n CHR -s snap-a664a48e -d "6.34rc21" -a x86_64 --virtualization-type hvm

• Now you can launch instance from your AMI.

Alternative installation

• On your AWS EC2 switch over to Ireland cluster and look up AMI ID ami-fce6448f
• copy it over to cluster of your choice
• Launch instances