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FritzBrick
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:51    Post subject: X86 on VirtualBox Reply with quote
Hello all, this is my first dd-wrt forum post.
I want to make a proxy/webfilter using dd-wrt x86 on virtualbox and squid on a winXP PC.
Tested ddwrt X86 on VirtualBox.
Image used = BrainSlayer-V24-preSP201-16-10-r13637x86dd-wrt_public_vga.image

Looks powerfull & promessing...
But every reboot settings/password are lost.

What am i missing here?
Do i need a valid license. If so how, where to handle this.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:02    Post subject: Reply with quote
there seems to be somthing wrong with the nvram partition. settings doesnt get saved at your side
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 0:14    Post subject: password / settings do not stick after reboot x86 Reply with quote
Hi

I am in the same situation. I am running the x86 version within VMWare workstation. I can access the web interface. I can SSH into the system, however if I change the password or other settings, it says it has saved. After I reboot the default settings are back. Any ideas on how can I resolve this?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 22:03    Post subject: anyone??? Reply with quote
Does anyone have an idea?

There really isn't much activity here is there?
Azyrael
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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:37    Post subject: Reply with quote
I found I was having the same problem using the .image files converted to for use with Virtual box.
The fix I found was to find an older build of the VMware harddrve and load that. Then I was able to save settings.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 21:09    Post subject: Reply with quote
This thread is quite old but I feel like I might have some valuable information.

To the point.
You probably converted the image with the following command:

vboxmanage convertdd dd-wrt_public_vga.image dd-wrt.vdi

This new file boots perfect but you’ll also have to increase the dynamical size of the vdi or it is stuck at a statical 11 MB or so.
At that size it isn't writable because the system expects to write at sectors that don't exists so make sure you resize the dynamic size also to something like at least 250 MB.
I used CloneVDI to do this but it should also be possible with an extra command line option for vboxmanage (which I'm currently unaware of).
tuklu_san
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
This did the trick for me:

Code:
"c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyhd --resize 1024 "dd-wrt-x86.vdi"
cshort
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 15:28    Post subject: Reply with quote
This thread has some good information. The site linked below has additional information on installing DD-WRT in VirtualBox.

https://lamp-r.blogspot.com/2015/09/create-virtual-router-dd-wrt-in.html
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