ot: vlans and vmware

["Gordon McLellan" <gordonthree@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Thanks!
Gordon
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