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keeping to this howto do this:

• download the g'zipped prebuilt Kamikaze image in vmware disk image format or roll your own:
  • download the g'zipped prebuilt Kamikaze image
  • well - gunzip it
  • convert the image using qemu-img from the package „qemu“ (Ubuntu/Debian)
    • qemu-img convert -f raw openwrt-x86-2.6-ext2.image -O vmdk openwrt-x86-2.6-ext2.vmdk
• download the g'zipped prebuilt 100 MB spare disk image in vmware disk image format or roll your own:
  • create a new file system for the db in an appropiate size - you might want to start with 100 MB:
    • dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=100M count=1
  • create an ext2 file system in that image
    • mkfs.ext2 disk.img
• get the VMware configuration file
• open the vmx file with VMWare Player
• boot your new vm
• edit /etc/config/network:

config 'interface' 'lan'
option 'ifname' 'eth0'
option 'proto' 'dhcp'