Trying to work out how to get openwrt working in esxi v6. I've taken the download from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc3/targets/x86/generic/openwrt-21.02.0-rc3-x86-generic-generic-ext4-combined.img.gz
I unzipped it and then converted it to a vmdk image using
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc3/targets/x86/generic/openwrt-21.02.0-rc3-x86-generic-generic-ext4-combined.img.gz
I created a new vm with 512Mb Ram and pointed it at this vmdk, but it wouldn't boot. I used other linux (32-bit) as the type, and selected a single processor. I think I used LSI parallel for the bus. It looked like ESX just couldn't find the image on the disk.
Does anyone have a solution to this? Am I creating the vmdk correctly, or is there just something in the newer versions of OpenWRT that prevent this working?
Thanks