Openwrt as a virtual router

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Routing traffic from Windows host machine to OpenWrt on Virtualbox

You simply set the network card connected/attached to LAN as a Bridged Interface in VirtualBox ( LAN is usually the first interface defined in OpenWrt, WAN is second). The Windows machine should get an IP automatically, as usual. If you don't wanna use or don't have a second PHY, you can use the Host-Only Adapter (it can be added to a br-lan, but that gets more complex). It's really out of the scope of OpenWrt on how you connect to the PHYs - but I hope that give you 2 simple …

Same applies for Ubuntu host.

There's also mutiple threads to search on the topic.

Hope this helps.