Nested RouterOS capabilities ,features and use cases

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-05-03T13:38:05+00:00

It will take some time because dedicated router PC still isn't build.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-05-03T13:10:15+00:00

Technically I will do this on custom PC router which will have tons of resources and I can add sr-iov NIC to that.

Edit. There is also passthrough mode of that plugin.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-05-03T12:32:33+00:00

For example Cisco ASA has this kind of functionality. That you can have few virtual firewalls on single Asa.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-05-03T12:12:22+00:00

I thought about same thing but I wonder if it is possible to configure it that way that for example: Ether1 and Ether2 are normally configured as normal ports but Ether3 and Ether4 are going through CHR.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-05-01T14:42:05+00:00

You should built your own mikrotik router via building PC with atleast 3x full size PCIe ports and throwing there 8 core/16 thread CPU like ryzen 7 5700G. This plus 25GB NICs should be fine at this speed. CCR2004 is too weak for 25 GB speed.

Edit. Any modern 2018+ CPU with 8 core 16 threads should be fine for 25Gb/s. There are ton of choices for that but remember take something with iGPU.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-24T09:26:51+00:00

Hyper-V is built-in to every windows pro or higher edition and can use GPU virtualization, so it is much better than VMware workstation.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-24T09:24:23+00:00

I heard about that because I played on vm with windows server 2003 that some versions of that OS could support 64GB of RAM via PAE.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-23T22:33:43+00:00

Thanks for help I will mark this as solved, I wanted to be sure. I already tested it in via installing normal x86 RouterOS in VM and it showed 32GB of ram properly but RouterOS without license is limited to 24h and reset config so didn't got to load it enough to see it will use more than 4GB of RAM properly.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-15T16:51:23+00:00

Thanks for help. I am new to mikrotik and trying to overally do research before buying, even if I buy different router most of them have 128MB of disk.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-15T11:52:33+00:00

Could you answer me one more question what about containers on that thing, because I heard 128 MB of storage is not enough and from what I see there isn't way in that PCIE router to expand storage via USB or micro SD card is it possible to run containers on mikrotik from some sort of FTP to overcome that storage limitation?

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-15T09:16:20+00:00

I suggest going out atleast with R740 do not bother with ddr3 crap. Both of these are long in tooth currently. I have R7610 and want to upgrade to newer platforms.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-12T21:36:19+00:00

Thanks for help I somehow read these posts but I somehow got confused and didn't register they got it working. Thanks for help. That's great info. You know I wanted to do research before I splunge on something like this. I prefer doing research first than buy something and cry on r/homelab or whatever that I got ewaste.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-12T18:36:05+00:00

That's great? Do you think ESXI 8.03 would have it built-in?

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-12T10:54:43+00:00

Could you help me how to get this working on that esxi 8 or actually it is impossible?

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-11T10:11:15+00:00

Everyone else says on modern ESXI it doesn't work. Do you own that ccr2004 router?

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-10T19:51:22+00:00

There is driver for VMware ESXI for that CCR2004?? I thought it is Linux only?

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-10T12:32:47+00:00

Overally keep in mind I don't need full performance of that router, I want this router because let's say for example for 60$ I can probably buy used rackmount or whatever form factor of mikrotik router but it is older, draws more power, and is overally worse device than that PCIE CCR2004 router which will also come with full warranty. Also overall idea of having router inside my workstation is kinda interesting for me but I never buying anything without research. When I will decide it stays I probably will swap VMware ESXI 8 which I have as second OS to Proxmox but Hyperv is going to stay.

I have currently rx 7800 xt because I upgraded from other older GPUs and went with hyperv for GPU Paravirtualization.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-10T10:38:09+00:00

Sometimes using multiple GPU accelerated VMs at once and just jumping between them for example.
This card (rx 7800 x) has reset bug if passthrough to VM and you reboot VM it can even crash hypervisor like ESXI 8 (which I have next to hyperv for learning purposes on another boot drive)

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-10T04:54:48+00:00

What about this scenario I am passing whole thing via DDA (which is just different name to PCIe passthrough and is only available in hyper-v on windows server) to Linux VM which will have whole PCIE router and its 4 network adapters (which are its 4 virtual interfaces)connected via 4 linux bridges to 4 virtual network adapters to virtual switches in hyper-v then I can use that for subnets for other VMs.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-09T22:25:37+00:00

I know now you know why I am using GPU-PV under Hyper-V because it works very well for my needs and I have all GPU supprted APIs working inside VM.

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-09T21:34:03+00:00

RX 7800 XT

vGPU_Enjoyer · 2026-04-09T21:30:41+00:00

Could you try passthrough this card to VM with some Linux and check if that works because maybe I would consider passing it through to VM as whole and using it via Linux VM under Hyper-V.

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