On Friday, 04/22/2016 at 02:41 GMT, Grzegorz Powiedziuk 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 3. Less common, useful in some cases - OSA is plugged into "trunk" port 
on
> real switch and in general same as (2). But, when you do grant, you can 
say
> that this specific grant should act as "porttype trunk" (and you specify
> which vlans are trunked)  so VSWITCH instead of removing the vlan tag,
> forwards the whole thing to linux guest. So linux guest should be
> configured to receive and send tagged frames.  As Mark mentioned, during
> install process it might be troublesome.

Please don't do this.  Instead, use a PORTBASED VSWITCH so that you can 
two vNICs, each assigned to a different VLAN on the same VSWITCH.

Except for a VSWITCH sniffer, there's no longer any need for Linux to be 
VLAN-aware when running as a guest.

Alan Altmark

Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant
Lab Services System z Delivery Practice
IBM Systems & Technology Group
ibm.com/systems/services/labservices
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