Hi apologies for any confusion. What i meant to say is that OpenWrt can be run on the Raspberry Pi. I did this because I had a Raspberry Pi laying around and did not want to invest in additional hardware just for experimenting with OpenWrt within my internal network. You can also run OpenWrt in a virtual environment like QEMU -- this is useful if you're aiming to connect multiple VMs to OpenWrt, effectively setting up a virtual network with OpenWrt at its core. Please see links below for more info:

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=21.02.3&targe... https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu