VLAN and Intel network driver

[zzeta]

Hi all.

I'm trying to put a guest windows 7 machine on a different VLAN respect to the guest machine; to obtain this I started configuring the guest network adapter as a virtual Intel Pro/1000 MT Server in Bridge configuration and the plan is to go inside the guest machine and configure this adapter with a specific VLAN tag. This last configuration can be done installing the full Intel drivers which enable the VLAN tab in the adapter property window... This in theory, in fact after downloading the Intel drivers, the installation fails claiming that "No Intel Adapters are present". What's wrong?

Thanks.

[BillG]

The NIC, like everything else in a vm, is virtual. It is an emulation of the physical NIC of the same name. It does not emulate all of the functions of the physical card.

[zzeta]

Thanks Bill for your reply; following your hint, I decided to change approach: I configured VLANs in the host. For each configured VLAN my host shows a different ethernet adapter, so I can choose which VLAN the guest sees by selecting the proper adapter in the bridge configuration... Now everything works but I have to underline two (and half) important drawbacks:
1. the host is connected on both VLANs: this is not what I want, and it needs more work on its routing table
2. the other guests configured with bridge must be manually re-configured to match the right VLAN
3. (the less important) the guest can see only one VLAN and cannot be linked, like the host, to 2 or more VLANs.
In any case this configuration does more or less what I want. In your opinion there is a better way?
Thanks

[BillG]

I can't really comment. I never use VLANs.