Homelab shelves used to sprawl—router here, NAS there, a noisy PC for VMs. AiRouter packs Proxmox Virtual Environment, OpenWrt, and NAS into a single all-in-one machine: an x86 core board for the heavy lift, PXE module for network install and side duties.
Software stacks you already know—wired together so backup, routing, and lab VMs share one power cord.
Not three boxes pretending to be a bundle—one image, one upgrade path, one place to look when something blinks wrong.
Run home lab, CI runners, or side services in VMs without a second tower under the desk.
Keep routing and policy where the packets live—guest Wi‑Fi, VLANs, and ad-hoc fixes without cloud lock-in.
Snapshots and shares on the same metal that routes your LAN—fewer sync jobs across the house.
When you want the world beyond your hallway—daily tech stories and open-source tides—we keep a separate window open for curiosity.
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Not manuals—moments we met on other people’s networks, written while the tea cooled.
Choose Proxmox Virtual Environment or VMware ESXi 9 as the hypervisor on the same AiRouter x86 core board hardware.
Run your router as a VM on AiRouter—compare OpenWrt, MikroTik RouterOS, iKuai, and iStoreOS on Proxmox or ESXi.
Run NAS as its own VM on AiRouter—pick Synology DSM, 飞牛 fnOS, OpenMediaVault, or TrueNAS SCALE on Proxmox or ESXi.
You do not need a perfect topology—just a sentence about the room you are in. We read every note like a letter, not a ticket.