How to intall Soft routing OpenWRT on VMware ESXI

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  • Firstly, we need to download the image file on following link, depend what version you need to use.

immortalwrt: More customorized.

OpenWRT: Officinal image

https://firmware-selector.immortalwrt.org/
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/
Searched "Generic" then choose the version that compatiable with your device.
  • Then deply the OpenWRT to VMware ESXI. Choose Other 6.x or later Linux (64-bit), Boot type EFI.

The RAM is 512 MB is enough.

  • Then extend the /root/ size according following doc, as even you have extenrd the VM disk to 5 GB, but the size still is about 800 MB.

Refer to: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/advanced/expand_root

Automated Pre 25.12

# Install packages
opkg update
opkg install parted losetup resize2fs blkid

 
# Download expand-root.sh
wget -U "" -O expand-root.sh "https://openwrt.org/_export/code/docs/guide-user/advanced/expand_root?codeblock=0"
 
# Source the script (creates /etc/uci-defaults/70-rootpt-resize and /etc/uci-defaults/80-rootpt-resize, and adds them to /etc/sysupgrade.conf so they will be re-run after a sysupgrade)
. ./expand-root.sh
 
# Resize root partition and filesystem (will resize partiton, reboot resize filesystem, and reboot again)
sh /etc/uci-defaults/70-rootpt-resize

Automated Post 25.12

# Install packages
apk update
apk add parted losetup resize2fs blkid
 
# Download expand-root.sh
wget -U "" -O expand-root.sh "https://openwrt.org/_export/code/docs/guide-user/advanced/expand_root?codeblock=0"
 
# Source the script (creates /etc/uci-defaults/70-rootpt-resize and /etc/uci-defaults/80-rootpt-resize, and adds them to /etc/sysupgrade.conf so they will be re-run after a sysupgrade)
. ./expand-root.sh
 
# Resize root partition and filesystem (will resize partiton, reboot resize filesystem, and reboot again)
sh /etc/uci-defaults/70-rootpt-resize

Re-running Script

If the root partition has already been expanded and the expand-root.sh script has previously run, attempting to run it again will not work by default. To perform an additional root expansion, you need remove previous script flags:

rm /etc/rootpt-resize
rm /etc/rootfs-resize

Open the /etc/sysupgrade.conf file and remove the following lines:

/etc/uci-defaults/70-rootpt-resize
/etc/uci-defaults/80-rootfs-resize

This ensures that the system no longer considers the scripts as already executed and then you can re-run script.

  • Install Passwll service

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