Establish openwrt Virtual Environment

Openwrt is used for recent work tasks. I have never been familiar with openwrt before.

First, we need to build an environment, and I don't want to buy a Development Board. Therefore, creating a virtual environment is the best choice.

[Software environment]

Virtual Machine: virtualbox

Openwrt: http://backfire.openwrt.org/10.03/x86/openwrt-x86-ext2.image.gz

Procedure]

1. Convert the image file format:

Vboxmanage convertfromraw -- format vmdk openwrt-x86-ext2.image openwrt-x86-2.6-ext2.vmdk

2. Open virtualbox:

Create a new Virtual Machine System (select other types), memory 128 MB, set two NICs, hard disk select Step 1 converted files.

3. Start the virtual openwrt and set the IP address

4. Enter the IP address in the host machine's browser. After the IP address is opened, you can configure the openwrt system.

Reference: http://www.right.com.cn/forum/thread-35212-1-1.html