[EvanAnderson]

This makes sense. Years ago I used OpenWRT as a lightweight "network utility" VM in a number of Customer sites. The UI was comprehensible to the in-house IT staff (i.e. it didn't "look like Linux") and there's a ton of functionality. I could definitely see it being useful on bare metal devices.

[rzzzt]

I did the same for a virtual lab for experimenting. OpenWRT ran as the router VM with two network interfaces and the rest of the instances connected to a VirtualBox internal network that was configured as its LAN side.