OpenWrt x86 64 - jhu-information-security-institute/NwSec GitHub Wiki
- Download latest point release live image for Kali here
- Boot the system without an OS using the Kali live image
- Download into the VM the latest generic-ext4-combined.img.gz for PC BIOS systems here
- Disk image uses a single read-write ext4 partition without a read-only squashfs root filesystem. As a result, the root partition can be expanded to fill a large drive (e.g. SSD/SATA/mSATA/SATA DOM/NVMe/etc).
- Unpack image
$ gunzip openwrt-*.img.gz - Identify disk to replace sdX in the following command below (likely to be sda)
$ lsblk - Use dd to write image to /dev/sdX
$ sudo dd if=openwrt-22.03.3-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M - Use gparted to expand rootfs on partition 2 (e.g., /dev/sda2)
- Boot the OpenWrt image
- Setup networking for it by editing "config interface 'lan' in
/etc/config/network
option device 'br-lan'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '<REPLACEME>'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option gateway '<REPLACEME>'
list dns '<REPLACEME>'
list dns '8.8.8.8'
list dns '1.1.1.1'
- Reload network settings
# service network reload - Update
# opkg update - Set the root password using
passwd - Open a browser from another system on the same network and open the OpenWrt Luci interface by going to the IP address of the VM
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