I don't know about failover the way you describe. No, I haven't tried to export and import configs. Details are availablein Mikrotik's documentation: Yes, the 60 days license is fully featured, you can specify the license you trial (p1, p10, P-Unlimited). I haven't tested routing speeds, and probably won't, so I doubt my server specs matter (It's an old Mac Pro cheesegrater) I only set this up for a special type of VPN I needed.

that will dd the contents of the raw image onto the raw zvol disk of the virtual machine.copy the raw image to the raw virtual disk dd if=/path/to/chr/img of=/full/local/path/raw/virtual/disk e.g., dd if=/mnt/pve/foinix-proxmox-content/template/iso/chr-6.45.8.img of=/dev/zvol/mass/vm-139-disk-0.

that will tell you the full local path of the raw virtual disk.

that will tell you the name of the disks attached to the VM.

pvesm list | grep e.g., pvesm list mkx-mass | grep 139.

find the location on the local filesystem for the VM's disk:.

no need to start the VM yet, just create it.

create a new VM, preconfigured for linux 2.6+, with virtio block device storage, and at least two virtio network interfaces, one connected to uplink, the other either disconnected or connected to the downstream switch, 1 core, 256mb is fine.

download and unpack the CHR RAW img (, find 'Raw disk image') to somewhere you can access from your proxmox host.

Didn't find it in the forums when I was searching so in case someone else needs to, they can use this. Hey all, I just wanted to share a quick writeup on how to set up a CHR VM on Proxmox with ZFS.

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