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

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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

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.

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

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

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