I have been deciding on the virtualization tools for my Lab21 between VMWare Player and VirtualBox. Both have advantages on their own.
There are 3 types of networking in virtualization tools: NAT, host-only, and bridged.
- NAT - Most commonly used.
- Host-only - Mostly for private used.
- bridged - For advanced user only.
While doing my research on which tools to use, I come across an interesting video run OpenWrt router image on a VirtualBox with "host-only + bridged" environment.
After watching the video, it gives me more ideas about how to design Lab21 architecture.
Links:
- OpenWrt on VirtualBox HowTo
- OpenWrt on x86 hardware
- https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.1/targets/x86/64/