OpenWrt/VMware

• Download OpenWRT
  • https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.3/targets/x86/64/

  • ...-generic-ext4-combined.img.gz

wget 

gunzip openwrt.img.gz

qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk openwrt.img openwrt.vmdk

• Error: Unsupported or invalid disk type 2 for 'scsi0:0'.
  • Copy from one datastore to another and back
  • this will inflate the image and make ready to use