Openwrt installation on VirtualBox

by techouse · Published July 7, 2020 · Updated December 27, 2020

Openwrt installation on VirtualBox

We will be installing the latest version of OpenWRT 64 bit in VirtualBox.

In this tutorial, we will be guiding you to install and configure OpenWRT in the Virtualbox machine.

Also guiding you to configure networks for OpenWRT machine.

Prerequisites

Before installing OpenWRT, install the VirtualBox machine.

install VirtualBox from Ubuntu software store

Download and Install OpenWRT in VirtualBox

Download OpenWRT .img from the below link. (I suggest to download the latest one)

[Index of /snapshots/targets/x86/64/]

Now open the terminal and go to the directory where it is downloaded and extract using gunzip command

cd /home/viking/Downloads/
gunzip openwrt-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined-efi.img.gz

After extracting, use below command to convert .img to .vdi format

VBoxManage convertfromraw --format VDI openwrt-*x86-64-combined*.img openwrt.vdi

Now open VirtualBox and start installing OpenWrt.

Now Configuring Network settings.

Change network from NAT to Bridged Adapter

Start OpenWRT virtual machine

Now we also need to make changes in OpenWRT network settings as default IP value is define – 192.168.1.1 and DNS, gateway are also not defined.

Step 1 – first check the ping

ping google.com

Step 2 – cat /etc/config/network

Change IP and add DNS, Gateway.

Step 3 – Edit – vi /etc/config/network

option ipaddr '192.168.1.101'
option gateway '192.168.1.1'
option dns '1.1.1.1'

change IP and add DNS, Gateway.

Now restart network service

service restart network

ping google.com

How to access Web

opkg update
opkg install luci

http://192.168.1.1

Openwrt installation on VirtualBox