Just in case you're interested, there's also this:

http://openvswitch.org/

It seems to be getting a lot of play in the Xen world, especially XCP.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:18, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote:
> The way I do this is by having a dedicated router VM as well.  It is dual
> homed - one NIC bound to the hardware and therefore on the 'real' LAN (the
> 'public' NIC), and the other on a VM-only network (the 'private' NIC).  I
> have my test VMs route out through the router VM which isn't part of the
> test domain.  It truly acts as a router / firewall.
> I have often used Server 2003's RRAS for this, but I recently switched to
> Vyatta VC5 (http://www.vyatta.org/downloads) so that I can have multiple LAN
> ip addresses bound to the router's public NIC and forward the same port on
> different ip addresses to different machines on the test network.
>  (Currently playing with Exchange 2003 to 2010 migration scenarios where I
> keep the 2003 server alive for a period of time.)
> HTH,
> RS
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Glen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hoping someone can point me to a workaround for this.
>>
>> We have a lab of 8 vista boxes running VPC 2007 sp1.
>>
>> The teacher is teaching server 2008 and wants to have each student set up
>> a domain controller and client workstation.
>>
>> We set up the server and client as guests, configuring each to use Shared
>> NAT networking.
>>
>> Problem is the two guests can’t talk to each other.
>>
>> I see in the help that this is expected, but I’m wondering if anyone knows
>> how to allow the guests to talk to each other, other than using Private”
>> networking.  With private, they don’t have access to the internet, which
>> they also need.
>>
>> Thanks and happy Friday to all.
>>
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