On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:33 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote: > Does anyone have VLAN tagging working from within a guest on > vmware-server? I'm running a centos 4.5 guest on a centos 5 host with > vmware server 1.04 and I've tried creating vlans using both > the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts method and just doing it from the > cli via vconfig. Either way appears to work, the OS creates the > vlans, but I think vmware's network adapter must be eating the tags or > something, since the guest is not able to talk to the real vlan on the > switch. > > On the host I setup vmnet3 to be bridged to eth1. I bring eth1 up on > the host but don't configure it in anyway. Vmnet3 is configured as > eth1 on the guest as well. If I create vlans on eth1 on the host, it > is able to talk to corresponding vlans on the switch. > > I'm wondering if there's some trick to get it work or some > configuration string needed in the vmx file? Right now I have the > vlans setup on the host and then bridged to vmnetX adapters for the > guests. But this is kind of messy since I have to take all my virtual > machines down to change anything. I agree ... i've done exactly the same thing : creating the ethx.vlan# interfaces on the host and it works this way. I've not tested the reverse : creating the vlan interfaces in guests : to be honnest, i didn't want to configure the 802.1q virtual adapters in each virtual machines guests ... so i did it directly on the Host and bridged each vmnet network to a specific ethx.vlan# interface. But i agree that if you need to bridge another vlan , you have to run vmware-config.pl, which will take all the virtual machines down ... Unfortunately, i can not test what you're trying to do today, but as soon as i have acces to the infrastructure, i'll do it and keep you informed ... Not really directly related (to 802.1q i mean) but i had strange behaviors on several nics (old broadcom nics in ibm bladecenter) .. have you tried a firmware upgrade on your nics ? that did the job for me .. I've asked on the vmware forum if that was possible to modify vmnet config in a 'hot way' but it seems not possible. Btw , i've also asked this on the vmware forum, but their answer is that such setup is too complex for vmware-server (that was not designed to work with vlans) and of course they point you to esx (aka virtual infrastructure ... ) ... But i was answered also that vmware server 2.0 should be released in a short time ... and that we can expect some newer things ... i hope vmnet configuration in real-time ... -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071004/a29e7019/attachment-0005.sig>