Very true - but in my case I needed to dedicate individual NICs to virtual machines, and also had a PCMCIA device that the virtual machines needed dedicated access to. Seem like a "virtual machine" hypervisor needs to address real hardware access - just like mainframe VM does. Providing "access to a network" is not the same as attaching a dedicated NIC.
VMware/ESX *does* provide the ability to have several NICs. And you can pick and choose how you use them. Share them, dedicate them, or team them (several NICs acting as one).
Lee
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