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If one wants to play around with the shell and other administrative tools, one can download a bootable x86 install image from [0] that works fine in qemu. I assume it'll work fine on any other major VM that can boot Linux and provide virtual NICs that work with in-tree drivers.

It's documented (but -IMO- poorly) that the default username is "admin" and the default password is the empty string. The brand-new-as-of-today docs site is at [1], the "older" docs site is at [2], and -as documented on the older docs site- you can get a PDF of the docs at [3].

If you ever find yourself with an entirely spare hour or two, fire up the VM just to play around with the interactive shell that they have built. I may not have worked with enough Enterprise Devices to have an informed opinion... but once I understood what the shell was telling me, I found its use of color to be helpful both when attempting to learn the basic syntax of the shell and as a reminder of what tokens are valid in which contexts. I've never worked with another interactive shell that has such nice syntax-and-data validity hinting.

[0] <https://mikrotik.com/download?architecture=x86>

[1] <https://manual.mikrotik.com/docs/introduction>

[2] <https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/>

[3] <https://box.mikrotik.com/d/df76f0d495284eb1b6a1/>