morbidpete Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 So my Mobo currently has 1 NIC. If I add a PCI-e card to add another nic, will I be able to creat another bridge for that nic and assign a VM to just that nic? What if I wanted said VM to attach to both nic's. Is that possible? -Pete #KCCO Link to comment
meep Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Watching this as I have the same question. My understanding is that both the NICs and router needs to support teaming for this to be of any benefit? Peter Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 will I be able to creat another bridge for that nic and assign a VM to just that nic? Yes. at least with Vmware. I'm sure XEN or KVM could handle it too. What if I wanted said VM to attach to both nic's. Is that possible? I bet this is possible, yet it would require software drivers & hardware capable of teaming as suggested by meep. I don't know if it's worth it. Link to comment
bennymundz Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I achieved a similar outcome by passing the nic directly to the VM. In my case it was my firewall and i was passing the red interface to my internet connection. I believe you need hardware that supports VT-D Link to comment
morbidpete Posted November 13, 2014 Author Share Posted November 13, 2014 I'm using Xen, I am very familiar with using vmware esxi as I currently have 5 guests on an HP g6 host. I do not want to do nic teaming. I want each nic to show to the guest as 2 different nic's -Pete #KCCO Link to comment
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