I'm setting up VMWare GSX Server 3.1 on SuSE Enterprise Server 9 (kernel 2.6) sitting on top of IBM HS20 blade servers. The blades have 2 NICs, one of which is used for iSCSI storage, the other is a 802.1q vlan trunk. Since my virtual hosts are going to be on various networks I need to either:
\- bridge the trunk on to my guest OSs (SLES8/9, Windows in the future, possibly NetWare 6.5)
\- create a virtual interface on the host OS and bridge that to my guest OSs
Either way will work for me - the second of the two sounds like it would be more logical as it would keep traffic that's not intended for a particular guest OS away from it. I haven't managed to get either working however. I can sucessfully connect to any VLAN I want on the host OS and I can connect to my iSCSI storage network (which doesn't use VLANs) from my guest OS but I cannot get a guest to communicate with any bridged VLANs.
I saw some references to vmware-any-any-update83 which is supposed to help - I have installed it but it has no effect as far as I can tell. Any ideas?