How to access Mikrotik using winbox in Virtualbox

Aug 2

Posted by Fuad NAHDI Under Mikrotik

In my previous article, I showed you how to install Mikrotik on Vitualbox. Now I will show you how to make it accessible from HostOS via Winbox.

Winbox is a GUI application to manage and configure Mikrotik. It will be much easier to manage Mikrotik using Winbox than CLI.

Basically to be able to manage using winbox, you have to map/forward port used by a GuestOS installed on Virtualbox. Winbox is using port 8291 to LISTEN on the system.

So we will map/forward this port from HostOS to the GuestOS.

The command are as below:

C:\Users\Fuad NAHDI>cd\
C:\>cd "Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox"
C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage setextradata Mikrotik "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/winbox/HostPort" 8291
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
 
C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage setextradata Mikrotik "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/winbox/GuestPort" 8291
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
 
C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage setextradata Mikrotik "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/winbox/Protocol" TCP
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

After executing the above commands withour any errors, now open Winbox application.

Set the Connect To value to localhost and Login to admin, then click Connect button.

After clicking Connect button and no error during login process, you should successfully log in to the winbox application.

Hope this tutorial useful for you.

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Comments

Terry

August 18th, 2009 at 9:06 PM

Nice tutorial and so useful to me, i never try using virtual box,but i’ll try it.
I am from Indonesia…
I had try microsoft virtual pc 2007 to install mikrotik router os,and have a little problems that i couldn’t see my ethernets virtualization,and so i can’t connect my virtual mikrotik that running on mic.Virtual pc with my host os.
I guess that i must install vmaddition in my virtual mikrotik, but i don’t know ho to do that.
Based on your experienced installed vmtool with command line in host os, i believe you can help me to solving my problem which i want to connect virtual mikrotik with “winbox” . Thanks to response

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Fuad NAHDI

August 19th, 2009 at 4:34 AM

Hi Terry,
Thanks for your comment.
To be frank I never use MS VirtualPC before. But there should be such a way to do that. Let me try it first. In between you can try using Virtualbox. It is simple and straightforward.

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